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.

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

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

The natural world is full of animals that seem to defy logic, blurring the line between reality and imagination. Some look ...

Wondering about the weirdest animals in the world? We've listed the Top 31 here — including the axolotl, aye-aye, blobfish, ...

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

Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this ...

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

Mr. Keith Jackson is a novelist and essayist. I often start and end my day in my mother’s garden. She died almost three years ago, of stomach cancer. The garden was sacred to her. While she was alive, ...

One of Australia's rarest - and most loved - animals has been found drowned, entangled in fishing tackle in the Queanbeyan ...