Waddling, wriggling, ambling, digging, laying eggs. There’s no shortage of verbiage when it comes to describing monotremata—the taxonomic order made up of only two animals, the platypus and the ...

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 ...

It's major. It's robust. It's huge. It is, in fact, as strong as a egg-laying, beak-rocking, water-loving mammal is adorable. There are platypus storybooks aplenty, and stuffed toys, and cartoon ...

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 ...

Monotremes have left a poor fossil record, and paleontology has been virtually mute during two decades of discussion about molecular clock estimates of the timing of divergence between the platypus ...

The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), sometimes called the duck-billed platypus is native to Eastern Australia and Tasmania. It is the sole-surviving member of its family (Ornithorhynchidae) and ...

The males of the extraordinary semi-aquatic mammal – one of the only kind to lay eggs – have venomous spurs on the heels of their hind feet. The poison is used to ward off adversaries. But scientists ...