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

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

UNSW scientists have discovered new species of bizarre, extinct 'hammer-toothed' carnivorous marsupials that likely crunched snails in Australia's ...

Wildlife rescuers are struggling to keep up with the demand to help stranded and sick marine life along the West Coast.

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, ...

Imagine a creature that looks like a mashup from a child’s wildest dreams: a furry animal with the bill of a duck, the tail ...

The star here is a South African pangolin called Kulu, who is saved as a baby in a sting operation. He’s cared for by Gareth Thomas, a Volunteer Pangolin Walker who treats the malnourished pangopup as ...

One man’s strange fixation with self-administering snake venom may lead to a remarkable advance in antivenom development, but ...

The internet's latest absurd obsession is: who would win in a no-rules fight between 100 average human men and one adult male ...

These odd quirks aren’t design flaws. They’re actually sophisticated survival mechanisms that have evolved over millions of ...