A controversial idea suggests the ancestors of echidnas were more like the platypus. For the first time, fossil evidence ...

As the world's only surviving egg-laying mammals, Australasia's platypus and four echidna species are among the most ...

Imagine an animal so baffling that the world’s best scientists once thought it was a hoax. A beast with the bill of a duck, ...

interactions with humans and feral predators, and climate change. This is especially true for platypuses . To ensure the survival of this ancient lineage, we need to better understand how their ...

Animals possess remarkable sensory abilities that far exceed human capabilities, enabling them to thrive in diverse ...

These superpowered abilities, far surpassing human limitations, help them find food, evade predators ... like mobile taste and touch probes. The platypus is one of the few mammals that can ...

The team found the molecule porphyrin causes the fur of bandicoots, quolls, and possums to glow bright pink under black light. Meanwhile metabolites of tryptophan produce a blue shade. Sometimes the ...