In the early 1980s, a massive drought known as the "Great Dry" swept through eastern Australia. Massy's traditional farming practices had allowed his sheep to intensely graze the landscape, stripping ...
Pangolins are scaly, anteater-like mammals known for their long tongues, burrowing lifestyles and elusive habits. Throughout their homes in Africa and Asia, pangolins are threatened by poaching ...
A nearly gapless genome sequence of the echidna, an egg-laying mammal with multiple sex chromosomes, helps researchers to track genomic reorganization events that gave rise to a highly unusual sex ...
The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) is one of Australia's most iconic animals. Belonging to a unique group of mammals called "monotremes" (with the platypus as the other prominent ...
While the echidna species has 400 to 2,000 electroreceptor ... Scientists believe that at some point during platypus evolution, the mammal lost its teeth to make room for the many nerve cells ...
While the echidna species has 400 to 2,000 electroreceptor skin cells, the platypus has 40,000 across the top and bottom of its bill. Scientists believe that at some point during platypus evolution, ...
A nearly gapless genome sequence of the echidna, an egg-laying mammal with multiple sex chromosomes, helps researchers to track genomic reorganization events that gave rise to a highly unusual sex ...
The center said on the messaging app Telegram that a total of 61 dead cetaceans - an order of aquatic mammals that includes whales and dolphins - had been recorded since the emergency, but the ...