SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- The Potawatomi Zoo announced it is welcoming a new ambassador animal, Teddy the short-beaked echidna. Zoo officials say Teddy was recently moved to Potawatomi from another ...

The platypus, a native of eastern Australia, is a puzzling creature with features from birds, mammals, and reptiles. Male ...

Kangaroos are iconic Australian animals who have long been used as a symbol within the country to represent moving forward.

The mammary gland, essential for nurturing offspring, exhibits significant variation across species. For instance, monotremes such as the platypus and echidna belong to a unique and ancient class of ...

Monash University has been awarded more than $3.87 million in Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grants to lead three groundbreaking research collaborations and partner on a fourth, addressing ...

The platypus is one of only five species of monotremes in the world. These are mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young. The other four are species of echidna (a mammal that looks a ...

For over a century, scientists have debated how mammals shifted from sprawling like reptiles to walking upright. This transition marked one of the most significant events in vertebrate evolution. It ...

Monash University has been awarded more than $3.87 million in Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grants to lead three groundbreaking research collaborations and partner on a fourth.

The Australian Research Council has awarded $46.6 million in grant funding to dozens of new collaborative research projects through the latest round of its annual Linkage Program. ARC chief executive ...

The Extraordinary Platypus: Defying Classification Platypus. Image via Unsplash The duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) belongs to a small group of mammals called monotremes. While nearly ...

Monotremes use a unique sex gene unlike those in other mammals Researchers from the University of Adelaide, in collaboration with the University of Melbourne, University of Queensland and Monash ...