I was halfway through sharing tales from Hume's groundbreaking 1824-25 overland expedition with Captain William Hovell from ...

Everyone knows the platypus looks bizarre: its duck's beak, webbed feet, fur, swimming skills, secretive lifestyle and egg-laying talents combine to make the Australian mammal an object of fascination ...

One Australian homeowner enjoyed an incredible payoff for their gardening efforts when they found an unexpected wildlife visitor in their front yard. They posted about the exciting discovery on ...

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 ...

It’s a semi-aquatic exotic with some remarkable traits! This week, we’re exploring the strange but true story of the platypus. * Platypuses use “electrolocation” while feeding, sending out impulses ...

Rose is a short-beaked echidna who lives at the Taronga Conservation Society in Australia. They drink by extending their 18-centimeter tongue into the water. When it is too warm, the echidna will blow ...

Tiny, spiny echidnas and the duck‑billed platypus already look like misfits, but the bigger oddity hides in their DNA. For most mammals, a gene on the Y chromosome called SRY flips the switch for ...

Spiny, snooty, and strange, echidnas are among Australia's wackiest animals. They're mammals, which means they feed their young milk, but only after the puggle (that's the word for a newborn echidna) ...