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

Monotremes are unique mammals that lay eggs, but their limited geographic ranges make them vulnerable. We explain why.

As Discover Wildlife reported, University of California, Riverside researchers have been tracking the spread of the New World ...

Cold temperatures and harsh weather conditions are bad news for most animals, including spiders. But these creatures aren’t ...

Our bones did not begin deep inside the body. They started in the skin, not long after the first complex animals took shape.

For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

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

The cycles found throughout nature are full of endings, fresh starts, and plenty of resets, whether we are talking about ...

A second outbreak of bird flu has been confirmed on a farm owned by Scotland's largest egg supplier, Glenrath Farms near West ...

Quick Take Boulenger’s backpack frog females carry fertilized eggs in a dorsal pouch, providing protection and moisture.

The Town of Fort Myers Beach Marine and Environmental Resources Task Force (MERTF) voted on Wednesday to approve a resolution ...