insectivorae
zooillogix | November 29, 2007
An artist's rendering of what Pseudotribos robustus or a weasel-possum-lizard, might have looked like 165 million years ago
In the November 1st, issue of Nature, a joint American and Chinese research team announced the discovery of a long dead prehistoric mammal with an interesting set of chompers. Although the teeth were very similar in form to other teeth found at the time, they actually were arranged in a "grind-cut" pattern instead of the more common "cut-grind" pattern! Upon realizing what they were looking at, some of the female researchers fainted from embarrassment.
These days,…
zooillogix | May 31, 2007We know that a rash of recent posts has put us at risk of entering cuteoverload territory , but we couldn't resist these pictures of seven baby hedgehogs from two different families at the Prickly Ball Farm Hospital in Devon, England. The hospital copes with orphaned hedgehogs every year. This year, however, because of a particularly mild winter, hedgehog mothers have been giving birth about a month early, and thus the hospital has had to gear up sooner to deal with the little buggers.See video of the adorable tiny hedgehogs here
The babies will be weaned to regular food and then released…