The duck-billed platypus is close to being wiped out permanently partly due to climate change, scientists have warned. Increasing numbers of the unique animal are becoming stranded as rivers dry up, ...

The newly discovered Caldwell echidna specimen (photo by Jacqueline Garget; all images courtesy University of Cambridge Museum of Zoology) You know the type: rule-breaker, defies categorization, total ...

It’s a semi-aquatic exotic with some remarkable traits! This week, we’re exploring the strange but true story of the platypus. * Platypuses use “electrolocation” while feeding, sending out impulses ...

Abandon any notion that the duck-billed platypus is a soft and cuddly creature -- maybe like Perry the Platypus in the Phineas and Ferb cartoon. This platypus, renowned as one of the few mammals that ...

Principal investigator Haojing Yan, for a small team of astronomers at the University of Missouri, compared the discovery to ...

The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), sometimes called the duck-billed platypus is native to Eastern Australia and Tasmania. It is the sole-surviving member of its family (Ornithorhynchidae) and ...

Everyone knows the platypus looks bizarre: its duck's beak, webbed feet, fur, swimming skills, secretive lifestyle and egg-laying talents combine to make the Australian mammal an object of fascination ...