Discover more about the egg-laying monotremes of Oceania and the ancient traits they still carry.

The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by combining physical traits in a bizarre way. They're egg-laying mammals with ...

Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this is a newly found type of star-forming galaxy. When you purchase through ...

"These nine objects are special." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Strange cosmic objects spotted by NASA's James Webb Space ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has turned up a tiny set of galaxies in the early universe that look deceptively simple but behave in ways astronomers have never seen together before. The team that ...

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 ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

Dec. 23 (UPI) --An Australian angler spotted what he initially thought to be a massive trout and ended up capturing video of something even stranger: a pink platypus. Victoria resident Cody Stylianou ...

In a classroom in Fisk Hall, a small group of students sits down to talk about the intricacies of Karl Marx’s philosophy. Every week, the students discuss different readings on topics ranging from ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the land. But for some species that evolution also involved a return trip. Dozens ...