Being a cheetah researcher in Kenya’s Maasai Mara, I’m often asked how many cheetahs there are in the region. It’s an important question, especially for conse...
What can teeth tell us about an animal that is thought to be the last link between mammals and reptiles? Quite a lot, actually. The recent discovery of fossiliz...
It might look like not much more than an over-sized shrew, but the solenodons (the Cuban solenodon, Solenodon cubanus, and the Hispaniolan solenodon, Solenodon ...
Ten years ago, the last wild northern white rhinos (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) were killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. These magnificent mammals,...
Bottlenose dolphins of the United States migrate up and down the Atlantic coast, heading north in the spring, and south again in the autumn. The seasons are a f...
Widespread across much of Northern America and Eurasia, the grey wolf (Canis lupus) is instantly recognisable as one of the northern hemisphere’s most famous la...
When we think of climate change we conjure up powerful images of melting ice caps and hungry polar bears (Ursus maritimus) stranded on ice floes, desperately tr...
Baboons are highly social creatures, constantly interacting with and gleaning information from others. New research shows that when they spot a neighbour eating...
Imagine if you relied on your body odours to keep intruders away from your home. You’d want to do what you could to up the stink factor, right? For the lemurs o...
Between 37 and 34 million years ago, a few intrepid monkeys, clinging to rafts of vegetation, were washed away from the African continent and towards South Amer...
