The new research could upend what’s known of the evolution of the most primitive mammals alive today. Found in Australia and New Guinea, the platypus and echidna are called monotremes ...

with the ancestors of platypuses then venturing into the water. Both animals are monotremes, the only living mammals that lay eggs rather than giving birth to live young. To shed more light on echidna ...

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The new research could upend what’s known of the evolution of the most primitive mammals alive today. Found in Australia and New Guinea, the platypus and echidna are called monotremes, and they are ...

Echidnas have also been found to have a diving reflex triggered when immersed in water that helps conserve oxygen and prolong breath-holding, and a study of a respiratory protein called myoglobin in ...

But there were still many gaps in the fossil evidence of monotreme evolution, Professor Flannery said. As a result, it's hard to tell when echidnas and platypus species finally diverged.