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 ...

In November 2023, Mongabay reported on an expedition in which researchers partnered with Indigenous communities and government agencies in Indonesia’s Cyclops Mountains to capture camera-trap images ...

An analysis of the interior of a single bone suggests its owner was probably an aquatic or semi-aquatic animal. Since the bone has been proposed to come from an ancestor of echidnas, or at least a ...

New research questions the evolutionary history of some of our most peculiar mammals. A small bone found 30 years ago at Dinosaur Cove in south eastern Australia could turn what we know about the ...

A visitor to a national park in Australia stole an echidna, a protected native mammal, and kept it before officials rescued and released it. Google Street View April ...