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 ...

Platypuses are so weird scientists sliced them open because they thought they were fake. But why? Male platypus have ven ...

A heartwarming rediscovery has been made on the world’s largest tropical island. Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna ...

Scientists have uncovered a new way embryonic cells divide when conventional mechanisms fail. Cell division underpins all ...

What makes this discovery so remarkable, is that this species was considered extinct in South Australia. The closest known ...