More than a hundred years after it was found in Foul Air Cave in Victoria, the fossil is granting us new insights into deep time.
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The monotreme sex gene may have been found after decades of searching – and it’s not what anyone expected.
A controversial idea suggests the ancestors of echidnas were more like the platypus. For the first time, fossil evidence might support it.
Platypuses are drowning in Australian waterways, tangled in fishing line and trapped in closed nets meant for freshwater crayfish or yabbies. But we can fix this.
We sampled 118 rivers and creeks before and after the Black Summer bushfires, searching for platypus DNA. Here’s what we found.
Echidnas are seemingly everywhere in Australia, from the Red Centre to snowy mountains. And that’s just the start of what makes them interesting
Echidnas can survive quite low levels of oxygen.
A new evolutionary perspective on what’s been a medical paradox: Why does the body use inflammation to regulate aspects of pregnancy when inflammation is also a big threat to pregnancy?
New technology reveals that digging echidnas play a crucial role in Australia’s ecosystems.
A new study by Rebecca Pian, Mike Archer and Sue Hand, published today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, describes the tooth of a new, giant species of extinct platypus. The fossil history of…
We know, because it’s big news, that drug-resistant infections are on the rise globally. But could Australian mammals hold the key to a fightback? Our current crop of antibiotics is in danger of becoming…
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