Tamielle Brunt, a platypus expert with Queensland’s PlatypusWatch project, has called the images “incredible.” Although snakes are considered a potential predator for the egg-laying mammal ...

Platypus eggs which proved Darwin’s evolution theory rediscovered 150 years after they were lost The specimens were found in stores at Cambridge’s University Museum of Zoology which assistant ...

New evidence from 100-million-year-old jawbones found in Australia suggests that egg-laying mammals such as the platypus may have evolved more slowly than other mammals, researchers say. Egg ...

SINCE writing the notice of Mr. le Souef's book on Australian wild life in NATURE for October 24 (vol. lxxvi., P. 635), I have been making inquiries as to the existence in collections of any ...

When we think of mammals, we usually think of animals that give birth to live babies, like lions or humans. But there’s a small and rare group of mammals that do things differently– they lay eggs!

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding could upend what’s known of their evolution.

Fossils of a 70 million-year-old platypus relative called Patagorhynchus pascuali found in South America show that egg-laying mammals evolved on more than one continent.