When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Echidnas may have evolved from a water-dwelling ancestor in an unusual evolutionary event, ...

"As a naturalist, I have studied the ecology and behavior of fishing cats," Santra told Mongabay India. "But I have never seen them preying on a monitor lizard." Chakraborty added that "this is not ...

This mammal, about the size of an opossum, had a mix of strange characteristics that haven't been seen together before. It highlights evolutionary strangeness that can arise when evolution occurs in ...

Some of the strangest mammals on the planet just got even stranger. It turns out that echidnas — spine-covered, egg-laying mammals with beaks that shuffle through the undergrowth of Australian forests ...