Between backward-facing-feet, nipple-less milk secretion and egg-laying, platypuses and echidnas are some of the strangest ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

A small bone found 30 years ago at Dinosaur Cove in southeastern Australia could turn what we know about the evolution of ...

Small towns can offer a variety of businesses, but rarely will you come across one with full-grown dinosaur fossils. That's ...

A controversial idea suggests the ancestors of echidnas were more like the platypus. For the first time, fossil evidence ...

As the world's only surviving egg-laying mammals, Australasia's platypus and four echidna species are among the most ...

We may have gotten the evolutionary origins of the echidna backward, as new research suggests its ancestors probably lived in ...

A “remorseless” man has been banned from keeping dogs for five years after his dog had to have its leg amputated following ...

New fossil evidence reveals insights into the evolution of monotremes, specifically platypuses and echidnas. A ...