Discover more about the egg-laying monotremes of Oceania and the ancient traits they still carry.

The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...

If you’ve always thought echidnas and platypuses were distant cousins who went their separate ways on land and water, think again. A single fossilized arm bone, found in a remote corner of ...

With a beaver’s tail, webbed feet, and a duck’s bill, platypuses are one of the world’s strangest-looking creatures. They are such an unusual mammal that the first scientists to study them believed ...

(CNN) — The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by a lone fossil specimen that scientists now say represents a long-extinct ...

Linda Shearwin receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Frank Grützner does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit ...

Preface: The loaded word -- Who you callin' an animal? -- Darwin, Darwin, Darwin...! -- The tree [strikethrough] river of life -- Part 1: Outside in -- Part 2: Song of myself -- Part 3: Hopeless ...