If you’ve always thought echidnas and platypuses were distant cousins who went their separate ways on land and water, think again. A single fossilized arm bone, found in a remote corner of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s impression depicts Kryoryctes at Dinosaur Cove in Australia. New research supports the hypothesis that Kryoryctes is a ...

Scientists may have gotten the evolutionary origins of some of the strangest animals on the planet backward. They've long thought that monotremes - egg-laying mammals that include the platypus and ...

Millie the Echidna is now one of the three animal mascots at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney but, despite echidnas marketing ...

Surviving undocumented for 62 years is the defining achievement of the rediscovered Zaglossus attenboroughi species. The existence of only 5 modern species creates a critical vulnerability within the ...

Some of the strangest mammals on the planet just got even stranger. It turns out that echidnas — spine-covered, egg-laying mammals with beaks that shuffle through the undergrowth of Australian forests ...

A nearly gapless genome sequence of the echidna, an egg-laying mammal with multiple sex chromosomes, helps researchers to track genomic reorganization events that gave rise to a highly unusual sex ...

(CNN) — The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by a lone fossil specimen that scientists now say represents a long-extinct ...