Mammals sometimes get a reputation for being a bit boring. They’re a bunch of hairy blobs too familiar to elicit much excitement. Sure, most people’s favorite animals are mammals, but few consider them particularly exciting or unusual. This is largely… Continue Reading
Overall, the modern world is a little lacking in megafauna. The entire planet used to have a diversity of terrestrial giants on par with modern Africa, with multiple giant herbivores and not quite as giant predators wandering every continent except… Continue Reading
We have talked about taxonomy a couple times on this site. For those who don’t know, taxonomy is the science of how living things are related to one another. In the modern day, we have the extremely advanced version of… Continue Reading
In my recent article on giraffes, I mentioned that they were part of a large swath of different animals, all of them now extinct except for themselves and okapi. That article was a runaway hit by my standards, and who… Continue Reading