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

The new work adds to the legacy of Dave Johnson, a long-time museum curator famed for his detail-oriented research on fishes ...

Scientists have discovered 1.5-million-year-old standardized bone tools in Tanzania, pushing back the timeline of early ...

A small bone found 30 years ago at Dinosaur Cove could revolutionize our understanding of echidnas and platypuses' evolution.

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 ...

New research questions the evolutionary history of some of our most peculiar mammals.A small bone found 30 years ago at Dinosaur Cove in Victoria ...