Up until now, the accepted understanding about these egg-laying was that they were both descended from a land-bound ancestor. And while the platypus ancestors...
The three newly-identified species show combinations of features not previously seen before in other living or fossil monotremes, according to Professor...
Named after Sir David Attenborough, the Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi) was captured for the first time in photos and video...
New research led by Australian Museum paleontologists shows that monotremes are the last survivors of a diverse set of fossil species that once roamed...
Monotremes (egg-laying mammals) are the only extant mammalian outgroup to therians (marsupial and eutherian animals) and provide key insights into mammalian...
The same hormone produced in the gut of the duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) to regulate blood glucose is also produced in the animal’s...
Biologists have found evidence suggesting that the western long-beaked echidna, Zaglossus bruijnii, thought to have gone extinct in Australia thousands...
