These advanced bipedal robots, developed by Boston Dynamics, are designed to perform tasks traditionally carried out by ...

Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

We may have gotten the evolutionary origins of the echidna backward, as new research suggests its ancestors probably lived in ...

Scientists have discovered 1.5-million-year-old standardized bone tools in Tanzania, pushing back the timeline of early ...

The Mets will be without left-hander A.J. Minter for a while, if not for the rest of the season. While the team is hesitant to give a definitive diagnosis, manager Carlos Mendoza described it as a ...

While mammals commonly evolve from land to water, such as whales, dolphins, dugongs, seals, walruses, otters and beavers, it is "extremely rare" for the process to reverse, said the study's lead ...

A small bone found 30 years ago at Dinosaur Cove could revolutionize our understanding of echidnas and platypuses' evolution.

An Overlooked Cause of Failed Ulnar Nerve Transposition. Open Journal of Orthopedics, 15, 167-174. doi: 10.4236/ojo.2025.154017 . Snapping triceps syndrome (STS) is described as anteromedial ...

As the world's only surviving egg-laying mammals, Australasia's platypus and four echidna species are among the most ...

New fossil evidence reveals insights into the evolution of monotremes, specifically platypuses and echidnas. A ...

A controversial idea suggests the ancestors of echidnas were more like the platypus. For the first time, fossil evidence ...