Jars of tiny platypus and echidna specimens, collected in the late 1800s by the scientist William Caldwell, have been discovered in the stores of Cambridge's University Museum of Zoology. Jars of tiny ...

You might think you know why the platypus is a bizarre beast. Maybe you know that it lays eggs, that the males have venomous spurs on their ankles, and that it can sense electricity with its bill. But ...

The platypus is one of the most unique animals in the world. It’s a mammal, but it lays eggs. It has webbed feet, a beaver-like tail, and an otter-like snout and bill that helps it locate food ...

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 ...

For the first time since 1961, researchers have rediscovered the elusive Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna in the remote rainforests of Indonesia. An expedition crew led by Oxford University ...