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

While it's not common to spot these Australian natives in Alabama, their non-native status in the state makes them illegal to own as pets. What other animals are prohibited to keep as pets in Alabama?

As well as suffering the same range of threats facing animals worldwide, our frogs continue to battle a deadly fungal disease.

A previously unknown shark once swam around the shores of the UK more than 70 million years ago. The new species, named ...

A vacationing Australian dad and his 11-year-old son nearly ... help three local men who were trying to return the distressed animal from a sand bank into deeper water. Nash Core took drone ...

Now, new analysis of a bone found three decades ago in Australia suggests that both animals evolved not from ... The creature was an early common ancestor of platypuses and echidnas and the ...

Nearly 3 billion animals were impacted, including mammals ... Climate scientists warn that such extreme heat and drought conditions are becoming more common in Australia, suggesting this stress factor ...

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) was called in to assist, but even they were taken aback by the situation. After all, handling Australian wildlife isn’t exactly a ...

Within diversity of animal life on our planet ... with some species obtaining up to 100% of their oxygen requirements through cutaneous respiration. The common frog (Rana temporaria), for example, can ...

Mia Cobb, The University of Melbourne When miniature dachshund Valerie was captured after 529 days alone in the wilds of ...