Conservationists recently introduced 15 of the polka-dotted marsupials into a protected area of New South Wales ...

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

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

Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

Found in Australia and New Guinea ... it is believed that dolphins and whales evolved from land animals and share lineage with hippos. But there are few examples that show evolution from water ...

A controversial idea suggests the ancestors of echidnas were more like the platypus. For the first time, fossil evidence ...

When natural sources of water dry up on Aboriginal land, pastoral ... great industry for Australia.” Opposed to culling, like some Aboriginal communities and animal welfare groups, he’s ...

A recent koala culling in Victoria, Australia, sparked outrage, highlighting deeper issues in koala conservation.