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 ...

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

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

A sperm whale that beached itself on Hilton Head Island will be euthanized with medicine from Florida, a veterinarian from ...

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 ...

Echidnas may have evolved from a water-dwelling ancestor in an unusual evolutionary event, scientists have discovered. . | Credit: Kristian Bell/Getty Images Some of the strangest mammals on the ...

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 ...

Liverpool FC's victory at the weekend has clinched them their second Premier League title but it also resulted in something ...