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 ...

Landholders living alongside a northern NSW creek say a government plan to demolish a weir to improve fish migration will be ...

A heartwarming rediscovery has been made on the world’s largest tropical island. Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna ...

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

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

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have identified a population of “platypus galaxies” that defy ...

After combing through NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of ...

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

Strange cosmic objects spotted by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are presently puzzling astronomers. The odd ...

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