Zoos Victoria provided a bit of insight into their residents’ feeding habits, with recently released footage showing keepers ...

McGee said toying with fans was one thing, yet he never imagined actual reporters would run with it.

Picture this: you’re a scientist digging near the Amazon rainforest, and you pull a jawbone out of the ground that looks so wrong you assume it broke underground. Then you find another one. Same weird ...

Even with only jaws, Tanyka amnicola adds a new character to an ancient ecosystem that scientists are still trying to sketch in. Its twisted, rasping bite suggests early plant-eating tetrapods were ...

cute animals hiding venomous defenses and deadly toxins.

The location in Wisconsin Dells means you’re already in vacation mode when you arrive, which is the perfect mindset for ...

Find out the truth about how the duck-billed platypus chews and digests its food, and if it really lacks a stomach.

Dobson was comparing the pigment-filled packets, called melanosomes, inside the hair of several mammal species when her Ph.D. supervisor, Liliana D’Alba, noticed the platypus oddity. Typically, ...

Platypuses are weird looking. They look like someone stitched together a duck and a beaver—flat bill, webbed feet, and a broad tail. But their appearance isn’t even the strangest thing about them. Not ...

First lab-grown oesophagus offers hope to children born with rare condition - The engineered tissue was implanted into pigs, ...

Climate change is one of the most pressing global challenges in the present times. Increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) ...