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.

Despite being mammals, these remarkably cancer-resistant animals share a lot in common with cold-blooded species.

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 ...

Owls are some of the best-known birds in the world, famous for their hooting calls and their excellent eyesight. There are ...

Scientists at Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern found certain parasites struggled to make eggs ...

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

An echidna expert from the University of Queensland says not much is known about how many echidnas there are in the wild. It ...