The platypus, a native of eastern Australia, is a puzzling creature with features from birds, mammals, and reptiles. Male ...

The dogs have spent seasons surveying the sanctuary’s creek systems to monitor platypus populations and help combat their ...

How the platypus got its name. George Shaw, keeper of the natural history collections at the British Museum (which were to later become the Natural History Museum), accepted the platypus as a real ...

The platypus has been reintroduced into Australia’s oldest national park for the first time in half a century. It’s part of a landmark conservation project to protect the animals amid ...

Talented sniffer dogs Kip and Moss are taking to the water on paddleboards to sniff out platypuses in hard-to-reach habitats.

The platypus’s conservation status is officially listed as “Near Threatened” both in Australia and internationally and it is believed that only 30,000 to 300,000 live in Australia, ...

A 26-year-old man has been charged with allegedly removing a platypus from its natural habitat in Morayfield, a town in Australia, Queensland Police said on Thursday following a hunt for the ...

Platypus, and their spiky echidna cousins, are monotremes — the only mammals that lay eggs. Around 180 million years ago, when all mammals were furry critters scurrying under the feet of ...

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University of Adelaide researchers discovered monotremes use a completely different sex determination system than other ...