For the past 65 million years, mammals have thrived across nearly every corner of Earth. In this time span, they have shaped ...
A fox leaps out of the shadowy blackness and in a moment the animal’s evolutionary gamble to shun daylight for darkness has failed. But for the nocturnal hunter, it has paid off. While most ...
They live in southern Africa, and are both solitary and strictly nocturnal. The cats can kill as many as 14 small animals in a single night. When a mandarin duckling hatches, its mother has to ...
Nocturnal animals tend to have proportionally bigger eyes than humans do. They also tend to have pupils that open more widely in low light. So, at the outset, nocturnal eyes gather more light ...
Wombats are furry, nocturnal marsupials found only in Australia. Baby wombats ...