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 ...

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

By analyzing the arrangement of vertebrae in the spines of nearly 400 species of tetrapods—a group of animals with four limbs ...

Crows and ravens mate for life, although they will "remarry" if their partner dies. When paired up, crows tend to mate and raise their young and fiercely defend their territories (something most ...

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

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

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

While there are plenty of weird animals in nature, some of the strangest organisms can only be seen under a microscope. Here ...