This week, uncover the secrets of an 18th century mummy, meet an ancestor of unusual modern mammals, see the sun like never ...

The cloud, named Eos after the Greek goddess of the dawn ... evolution of two of the most oddball creatures alive today: the echidna and the platypus. Both animals, known as monotremes, are ...

In Apollodorus’ Library of Greek Mythology, Typhon stormed Olympus ... Typhaon was the consort of Echidna, a half-maiden, half-serpent nymph, and fathered by her a race of monsters.

An analysis of a 100-million-year-old fossil has found that the creature it belonged to, similar to a monotreme like the echidna and platypus, was water-dwelling. The study supports the theory ...