Last week, I showed someone a purseweb spider’s home, the lair of a monster. The web resembles a gray, footlong dead twig an inch in diameter leaning against the base of an oak tree. Easy to overlook.

“When I first saw it, I just said ‘What?!’ and didn’t speak for a while,” said one of the researchers who studied the fossils of a prehistoric marine reptile. By Nicholas St. Fleur No mammal may be ...

Newly discovered fossils from China show a swimming reptile with a small head, tiny eyes and a bill similar to a modern duck-billed platypus. Like the platypus, Eretmorhipis carrolldongi probably used ...

The first analysis of the genome sequence of the duck-billed platypus was published today by an international team of scientists, revealing clues about how genomes were organized during the early ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A Frankensteinian mashup of a platypus, a stegosaurus, and a marine ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Scientists say one of the world's most unique animal species, the duck-billed-platypus, is on "brink of extinction." The platypus is part-mammal, ...

Few animals are as strange - or as fascinating - as the platypus. In this episode, we dive into the bizarre world of this one ...

Brown University biologist Ken Miller comments at the American Museum of Natural History on the just-published genome of that strange amalgamated mammal, the platypus. Steve Mirsky reports. Robin ...

Scientists have sequenced the duck-billed platypus' genome. And it's as messed up as the animal itself.<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip ...

OAKLAND, California --Prosecutor Paul Hora began a brief rebuttal argument in the Hans Reiser murder trial Monday before court recessed until Tuesday, when he is to pick it up again. Hora derided the ...