Analysis of single bone may tell us if the platypus is an evolutionary anomaly — starting on land, then returning to water.

Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

A small bone found 30 years ago at Dinosaur Cove in southeastern Australia could turn what we know about the evolution of ...

A new diorama showing a slice of prehistoric time is on display in the Museum of Geosciences on the Virginia Tech campus.

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We may have gotten the evolutionary origins of the echidna backward, as new research suggests its ancestors probably lived in ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

Donna Dieterle took these photos at her home in the foothills of the Valley of a Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) ...

Picture this: the next time you see a sparrow hopping along a sidewalk or a hawk soaring across a blue sky, you’re witnessing ...

The DNR says there are only a few times and locations when it's legal to catch lake sturgeon. What anglers should know in ...

Australia's burrowing echidna evolved from a water-dwelling ancestor in an "extremely rare" biological event, scientists said ...