Synapsida

The Ice Ages were, without doubt, the most dramatic natural climatic changes on Earth in the last few million years. The last one was partic...

Irrawaddy dolphin While we normally think of dolphins as being sea-dwelling animals, there are no fewer than eight species referred to as su...

A modern South American monkey Much like the rodents, the presence of monkeys in South America has long been a puzzle. We know that monkeys...

Orange nectar bat When most people think of what bats eat, the first thing that likely comes to mind is insects. It probably doesn't mak...

Ageing is an inevitable fact of life. Without it, populations would rapidly expand to the point that insufficient resources existed to maint...

Tucuxi In this series so far, I have generally been referring to the Delphinidae as the "dolphin family". That's a literal tra...

Megistotherium , a Miocene hyena-cat The majority of the land-based mammalian predators we are familiar with today belong to the order Carni...