Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Platypuses are monotremes, one of the oldest branches of mammals, and they reproduce by laying eggs instead of giving birth to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Picture this: you’re a scientist digging near the Amazon rainforest, and you pull a jawbone out of the ground that looks so wrong ...

Every state has regulations, but few of these strange animal laws feel essential. Some exist to protect animal welfare, others to shield people, and some are so oddly specific you can’t help but ...

This aerial view shows a riverside community of the Amazon rainforest by the Tocantins River in Cameta, Para state, Brazil on November 12, 2025, during the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference. MAURO ...

High-flying acrobats, insane puppetry and performers clad in weird animal masks – so many animal masks, from rams to koalas to parrots – you know that Cirque du Soleil is back in town. For its ...

Aerial view of the village of Ita'aka, in the Koatinemo Indigenous Land in the Amazon rainforest, about 70 km from Altamira, Para State, Brazil, taken on June 11, 2025. CARLOS FABAL CARLOS FABAL/AFP ...

"studied in critters who use it to save energy and so survive the long, cold winters of the Northern Hemisphere." Do critters in the Southern Hemisphere not hibernate? (TIL I've already learned the ...

Platypuses are weird looking. They look like someone stitched together a duck and a beaver—flat bill, webbed feet, and a broad tail. But their appearance isn’t even the strangest thing about them. Not ...