Between backward-facing-feet, nipple-less milk secretion and egg-laying, platypuses and echidnas are some of the strangest ...

As urban development continues to creep further into Earth's oldest and most diverse rainforests, a Swansea University-led ...

Even compared to chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, humans' scrapes and cuts tend to stick around for more than twice ...

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

Compared with her own experiences with nicks and cuts, the baboons’ ability to heal seemed like a superpower.

By analyzing the arrangement of vertebrae in the spines of nearly 400 species of tetrapods—a group of animals with four limbs ...

People take two to three times as long to heal from wounds as other mammals, a team of biologists reported Tuesday in the ...

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

An annual mussel quarantine includes Orange County. It was issued by California officials warning against any recreationally ...

Scientists note that the answer to this hairy question lies in evolution. Over hundreds of millions of years, a small handful ...