In the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, the harpies were a group of animal-human hybrid monsters like the sirens and the ...

A short-beaked echidna has joined Rockhampton Zoo, taking up residence in a newly refurbished Aussie animals enclosure.Mono ...

Mono, the short-beaked echidna, has joined Rockhampton Zoo, taking up residence in a newly refurbished Aussie animals enclosure. Mono -named after the word “monotreme,” meaning egg‑laying mammal – ...

Millions of years of isolation have shaped Australia's extraordinary mammal fauna into species unlike anywhere else in the ...

Follows Perry the Platypus, who returns as his alter ego Agent P, as he takes on a new undercover mission to stop animal ...

Discover more about the egg-laying monotremes of Oceania and the ancient traits they still carry.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These short and sharp videos feature an Aboriginal man – sometimes painted up in ochre, other times in an all khaki outfit – as he ...

Wondering about the weirdest animals in the world? We've listed the Top 31 here — including the axolotl, aye-aye, blobfish, and goblin shark.

A heartwarming rediscovery has been made on the world’s largest tropical island. Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi) has made an appearance despite not being recorded for 62 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Australian zoo has successfully bred one of the world’s rarest birds, the western ground parrot. Source: Perth Zoo In a ...

In a remote river in Victoria's east, a fisherman says he has encountered an ultra-rare pink platypus, one of only a handful ever sighted in the past 200 years.

We ended the year in Australia, where Kangaroo was proving "there's a healing power in animals" as it broke through at the local box office. Narelle Portanier Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s ...