Among the most familiar of creatures in the entire pantheon of legend and mythology is the unicorn, an animal so familiar and ubiquitous that you won’t need me to provide a description of what it’s meant to look like….
I feel the need to publish something new on rodents, and with no time to produce anything lengthy or new, here are brief thoughts on one of my favourite rodent groups: voles!
It’s probably impossible to write about the history of fossil hominin discoveries in Africa and not discuss, or at least mention, the Leakeys…
If you’re a regular reader here you might recall me making occasional lamentations about the near-absence of marsupial-themed content here. The recent Thylacoleo article was an unusual blip. But…
Among the most striking and interesting of extinct mammals is the so-called marsupial lion of Australia, or Thylacoleo carnifex…
For some time now I’ve been interested in what the glyptodonts – a group of highly modified, large or gigantic armadillos – looked like when alive….
I’ve said before that proboscideans – the familiar group of placental mammals that includes living elephants and their many fossil relatives – have never been well served here at Tet Zoo…
Is there a bigger, badder, blacker fossa alive in Madagascar?
Like me, you are no doubt a big fan of sloths...
Regular readers here will be familiar with my lamentations about the old, archived material from ver 2 (ScienceBlogs) and ver 3 (Scientific American). It’s been lost, destroyed, vandalized, paywalled, or some combination of those things. Today, something happened which has inspired me to rescue one of those articles from ver 3, specifically from 2013 (here’s the original). What inspired it, huh? Well, THIS DID…
Once again, I’m back from time spent in the North Atlantic looking at wild cetaceans, specifically on a Bay of Biscay trip (a journey made between Plymouth in England and Santander in Spain) organised by the wildlife charity ORCA…
Once more, it’s time to look at armadillos, both at their diversity and at some aspects of their evolutionary history…
If you’ve read recent articles here, you’ll have seen the coverage I’ve been giving to armadillos…
Let’s experiment with camera trapping!
Let’s look at armadillos some more. Or, let’s look at more armadillos. I mean, let’s look more at armadillos. Whatever: armadillos! More.
One of my favourite mammal assemblages of all is Xenarthra, the ‘strange joint’ group that includes the remarkable and odd anteaters, sloths and armadillos…
I haven’t written much on pinnipeds (seal, sea lions and walruses) here at ver 4. Here’s a recycling of material originally published at ver 2 way back in 2007, enjoy! I haven’t updated it…
If you were following the hominin-themed discoveries of that long-ago era known as the 1990s, you may well remember the hot news, published in Science in 1994 and 1996, on Homo erectus…
Once again it’s time to continue with my slow-burn zoo review series. I’ve just returned from a trip to Tokyo, you see, and while there I visited two zoos. Today we look at the first of them: Ueno Zoological Gardens (usually just called Ueno Zoo), located in Ueno Park in Taito City, central Toyko…
Over the past day (20th July 2023), social media accounts have been sharing a brief snippet of mobile phone footage purporting to show a lion (specifically, a lioness) walking at the edge of woodland in the Berlin suburb of Kleinmachnow…
