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

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 ...

As the world's only surviving egg-laying mammals, Australasia's platypus and four echidna species are among the most ...

A controversial idea suggests the ancestors of echidnas were more like the platypus. For the first time, fossil evidence ...

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, ...

The tail of ex-tropical Cyclone Tam will deal out one last lash across the country today as many regions continue to clean up from its destructive impacts. A severe thunderstorm watch has been ...

Born May 15, 1838, in Baltimore, Fanny Dunbar got her first taste of travel at the age of six weeks when her parents moved to New Orleans. From that time on, she traveled extensively, particularly ...

Now let’s talk about one of them – do you like red pandas? As this animal is a star of today’s puzzle – “red pandas have a ‘blank’ tail”. Graduate of English Philology and English in Public ...

Armoured dinosaurs with clubbed tails once roamed in what is now northeastern B.C., a new study suggests, leaving three-toed footprints across the landscape when the Rocky Mountains were still in ...

Roughly 20 "shooting stars" per hour may be visible during the peak of the Lyrid meteor shower overnight on Monday, April 21-22.