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 ...

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

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

Principal investigator Haojing Yan, for a small team of astronomers at the University of Missouri, compared the discovery to ...

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

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

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

Cell division is an essential process for all life on Earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...

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

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

Cell division is an essential process for all life on earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...