These cats mostly prey on small rodents such as jerboas ... Petr Masek via Shutterstock Caracals (Caracal caracal) are a wild cat species found in Africa, the Middle East and central Asia in a range ...

Ronin, a 5-year-old African giant pouched rat ... golden-haired mice help validate their technique to “de-extinct” species, but outside scientists remain skeptical A new study suggests ...

When Africa floated off, it carried these animals away to evolve on their ... "The key to survival was to be small." Mammals fit that profile. They suddenly found themselves in a world without ...

Some species, like the South African galago, hang out in acacia ... Some of the larger galago species will even hunt small animals, such as frogs and birds. Many galago species look so similar ...

Descended from more archaic relatives, the early true mammals were mainly small insect-eating creatures ... and flying mammals (bats), as well as rodents and primates. This sudden expansion ...