The findings were led by two mammalogists, Honorary Associate of the Australian Museum, Professor Tim Flannery; and Professor Kris Helgen, Chief Scientist and Director of the Australian Museum ...

Six monotremes living in the same place at the same time, 100 million years ago at Lightning Ridge, NSW. Clockwise from lower left: Opalios splendens, a newly described species dubbed an ‘echidnapus’; ...

The identification of a key gene in monotremes has increased our understanding of why the stomachs of platypuses and echidnas are atypically small, non-acidic, and, in the instance of platypuses, lack ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surviving undocumented for 62 years is the defining achievement of the rediscovered Zaglossus attenboroughi species. The existence ...

We often think of the egg-laying reproductive strategy in nature as being employed by birds. Indeed, while many people ...

Fossil analysis is shedding new light on the origins of egg-laying mammals and their arrival on the continent Researchers have pinpointed exactly how and when echidnas likely arrived in Australia as ...

The duck-billed platypus is quite the strange mammal. Because it has a bill like a duck, lays eggs like a bird, has poisoned spurs, and swims around in the water with webbed feet and a paddle-like ...

Most people would be content with baking sourdough or building a shed as their pandemic project, but scientist Tim Flannery decided to get to the bottom of how platypuses and echidnas evolved. He and ...