Platypuses are weird looking. They look like someone stitched together a duck and a beaver—flat bill, webbed feet, and a ...

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-laying ...

"Most people, including Australians, don’t know about most mammals in Australia," says Jack Ashby, author of the new book Platypus Matters . Reading time 5 minutes Eighty-six years ago today, the last ...

Platypuses are peculiar animals native to Australia. They have a bill like a duck, lay eggs like chickens, swim like beavers and produce milk like cows. Their most mundane feature might be their brown ...

"The idea with reintroducing platypuses is that it does act as a flagship species – it’s like our freshwater koala in Australia. And so by reintroducing platypuses we’re hoping to really promote ...

The Platypus Conservation Initiative, which includes UNSW's Centre for Ecosystem Science, Taronga Conservation Society Australia, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), and WWF-Australia, ...

I have only seen one platypus in the wild in my three-quarters of a century, despite extensive travels across Australia’s vast outdoors. It was in a pool below a waterfall on the Atherton Tablelands ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The native Australian platypus could become extinct in the coming years as it struggles to adapt to climate change and extreme conditions. Drought has been the biggest issue ...

The police had appealed for help after the platypus was spotted at a train station in Queensland. The animal was later released, but the authorities have been unable to find it. By Mike Ives A man in ...

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 suspect ...

Police have arrested a man in connection to a platypus taken from its natural habitat on Tuesday morning. A hunt for a man and a woman, as well as the platypus, was sparked after the pair was ...

Police in Australia launched a public appeal after a 26-year-old man, accompanied by a woman, was spotted on a suburban train with a wild platypus swaddled in a towel. The man, who faces court ...