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 ...

When you think of predators, you likely imagine big animals with sharp claws or teeth, like tigers or sharks. Over 100 ...

They even “adopt” orphans into their colony, proving that even the weirdest mammals can show remarkable kindness. This strange adaptation is a masterstroke of evolution, allowing them to ...

The real world analog of "Common Side Effects" underscores the loss of biodiversity before we even know what's gone ...

Dotting the ground beneath towering forests of the Pacific Northwest is a bizarre mushroom that looks like a molar, dotted with specks of blood. Known aptly as the bleeding tooth mushroom, this ...

They’re slow, they’re sleepy, and they’ve taken over the internet—but sloths are more than just cute animals hanging from ...

A benzodiazepine seeping into waterways is causing young Atlantic salmon to behave strangely, with fish in the wild migrating ...

And a kind of characterization of mushrooms, mycology, people associated with either as being wacky, wild, weird ... to the threat that is our species. Our collecting really didn't happen ...

This archaic system dates back to the 12th century. Today the “Fishes Royal Prerogative” is administered on behalf of the Crown by HM Coastguard’s Receiver of Wreck, which organises a post-mortem if ...