Studying the tiny animal, a 23-year-old found in a creek in Australia, offered hope for the threatened species and clues for how to help them survive. By John Yoon The platypus, a unique egg ...

Researchers are lobbying Australia’s national and state ... Researchers will use the sample to study the animal’s DNA and RNA. A young platypus has just been released onto a log in McMahons ...

A platypus waddling through snow. The latest feature setting this Australian species apart, yet again, from any other living animal is a unique protein in its milk that’s been found to kill bacteria ...

Besides seeing a platypus for the first time ... it because I had come to realize that the world didn’t look at Australian animals in the same way that I did. There’re amazing stories to ...

You might know the platypus as Australia's iconic shy, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, egg-laying mammal. Unfortunately, the odd animal is also struggling to survive. This is why ...

The animal was wrapped in a towel and ... which carries a maximum penalty of $431,250. Australian law forbids the seizure of a platypus from its natural habitat, as doing so could make it become ...

The pair were captured on camera holding the animal at Morayfield, about an hour north of Brisbane city An Australian man has been charged after allegedly stealing a platypus from the wild ...

Platypuses in Royal National Park are thought to have been wiped out by an oil spill more than 50 years ago, but the iconic ...

Naturalists have long been interested in the strange animals of Australia, the duck-billed platypus, spiny Australian anteater, the kangaroo, wombat, emu, casowary. Last week, Albert Sherbourne Le ...

The platypus isn’t just strange, it’s one of the most scientifically baffling animals on Earth. With the bill of a duck, the tail of a beaver, the feet of an otter, and the ability to lay eggs, this ...

Platypus Rescue HQ in Australia has opened its doors to its first four residents. The facility is tasked with the preservation and study of the charismatic but little-understood creatures ...

The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just ... most primitive mammals alive today. Found in Australia and New Guinea, the platypus and echidna are called monotremes, and they ...