Social gaze has received much attention in social cognition research in both human and
non-human animals. Gaze following appears to be a central skill for acquiring social …

This review is the final contribution to a four-part, historical series on human exercise
physiology in thermally stressful conditions. The series opened with reminders of the …

Monotremata is a clade of egg-lying mammals, represented by the living platypus and
echidnas, which is endemic to Australia, and adjacent islands. Occurrence of basal …

In 2020, the Australasian palaeontological association Australasian Palaeontologists (AAP)
joined the Australian government-supported Australian National Species List (auNSL) …

Six species of monotremes, three newly described here, occur in the Cenomanian fossil
fauna from Lightning Ridge in northeastern New South Wales, Australia, making it the most …

Use of quantitative morphological methods in biology has increased with the availability of
3D digital data. Rotated orientation patch count (OPCr) leverages such data to quantify the …

ABSTRACT I believe consciousness is a property of advanced nervous systems, and as
such a product of evolution. Thus, to understand consciousness we need to describe the …

A review of the Southern Hemisphere Mesozoic tribosphenic mammal fossil record supports
the hypothesis that Tribosphenida arose in the Southern Hemisphere during the Early …

We identify for wild, free-living short-beaked echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus) a novel
evaporative window, along with thermal windows, and demonstrate the insulating properties …

Egg-laying mammals (monotremes) are considered “primitive” due to traits such as oviparity,
cloaca, and incomplete homeothermy, all of which they share with reptiles. Two groups of …