The 1999 comedy Dogma opens with a disclaimer, exhorting the audience to remember that "even God has a sense of humor. Just look at the Platypus. Thank you and enjoy the show.

The platypus is perhaps the most bizarre creature on the planet. It’s a venomous, egg-laying, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed mammal. Those things simply aren’t supposed to go ...

According to the team, reintroducing the platypus will also help to keep the area healthy, because the animal is a top predator. If it is doing well, then the local ecology is doing well, too.

The platypus lives in rivers and lakes in eastern Australia. During the day it sleeps in a hole at the edge of the water. It rises at dusk and dives into the water to look for food.

The platypus is a bit like a fruitcake.Shove a bunch of leftover genes in there, mix it up and send it to your relatives see what kind of animal you get. That's kind of the approach evolution used ...

Amborella is the first known flowering plant and, like the platypus, a genetic dead end. Selaginella's relatives are the fossils in fossil fuel. Now, scientists are studying the genes of these ...

When British scientists first laid eyes on the platypus in the late 18th century, some of them thought the specimen — sent back from its native Australia — must be a hoax.

Witness the story of Pete Walsh, a Tasmanian man who befriends a platypus he names Zoom. With the help of experts, Pete learns more about the platypus’s secret world in a mission to protect them ...