The natural world is gifted with the ability to hide an entire ancient world under our very noses until the exact right time ...

Fossils reveal an ancient platypus species (Obdurodon insignis) that still had teeth, offering insight into how this unusual animal evolved.

“Platypuses are extremely rare in the fossil record and are often restricted to teeth, so it’s exciting to find new material ...

When the world goes bad, some plants do something astonishing. They can’t run or hide, nor can they do much about changing ...

Paleontologists have uncovered rare fossils of toothed platypuses that lived alongside freshwater dolphins, flamingos and ...

Animal breeding is the process of selective mating of animals with desirable genetic traits, to maintain or enhance these traits in future generations. For livestock, this involves estimation of the ...

This post is part of Mashable's Masturbation Week. May is National Masturbation Month, so we're celebrating by exploring the many facets of self-love. As Dr. Ian Malcolm says in the original Jurassic ...