Now, let’s take a look at some of the animals that really love eating mushrooms. People have long associated pigs with their amazing ability to sniff out truffles. But wild boars seem to enjoy eating ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

We may have gotten the evolutionary origins of the echidna backward, as new research suggests its ancestors probably lived in ...

Autotomy refers to an animal’s ability to shed or remove a body part as a defense mechanism. This act of self-amputation is most commonly triggered by stressful situations where an animal is either ...