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

New research suggests that land-based echidnas descended from semi-aquatic mammals. Gunjan Pandey CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Between backward-facing-feet, nipple-less milk secretion and ...

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 ...

A platypus’s genome is a strange blend—part mammal, part bird, part reptile. Scientists call it a “genetic Frankenstein” because of how many evolutionary features it shares across classes.

The Mammals Dark team travelled to Argentina to film one of the least mammal-like mammals in the world – the ‘large hairy armadillo’. Image by Tom Parry. Camera operator Max Smith sets up a ...

A team was expected to examine a dead whale that washed up near Surfers Point in Ventura. Here's what to know.

They’ve long thought that monotremes — egg-laying mammals that include the platypus and hedgehog-like creatures known as echidnas — originated on land. The platypus took the occasional aquatic foray, ...

Japan's Ryukyu Islands, which includes Okinawa, are the exclusive home to two rare mammals, the Amami rabbit and Ryukyu long-furred rat. These animals are hard to observe, but conservationists ...