Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surviving undocumented for 62 years is the defining achievement of the rediscovered Zaglossus attenboroughi species. The existence ...

The findings were led by two mammalogists, Honorary Associate of the Australian Museum, Professor Tim Flannery; and Professor Kris Helgen, Chief Scientist and Director of the Australian Museum ...

The genomes of egg-laying monotreme mammals, platypus and echidna, have been published in the prestigious journal Nature, providing a valuable public resource for research in mammalian biology and ...

Six monotremes living in the same place at the same time, 100 million years ago at Lightning Ridge, NSW. Clockwise from lower left: Opalios splendens, a newly described species dubbed an ‘echidnapus’; ...

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 ...

A heartwarming rediscovery has been made on the world’s largest tropical island. Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi) has made an appearance despite not being recorded for 62 ...

Surviving undocumented for 62 years is the defining achievement of the rediscovered Zaglossus attenboroughi species. The existence of only 5 modern species creates a critical vulnerability within the ...