The duck-billed platypus: part bird, part reptile, part mammal -- and the genome to prove it. An international consortium of scientists, led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, ...

The platypus is a near-threatened species from eastern Australia and Tasmania. The platypus is considered to be a mammal because it grows hair, has mammary glands, and three bones in the middle ears.

The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...

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Australia is home to some truly unique and unexpected creatures, but few are quite as strange and fascinating as the platypus ...

When British zoologist George Shaw first encountered a platypus specimen in 1799, he was so befuddled that he checked for stitches, thinking someone might be trying to trick him with a Frankencreature ...

Partnership with Taronga Zoo in Australia will focus on climate resilience. ESCONDIDO, Calif. (KGTV) - Researchers with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance are taking part in a brand new study to ...

In a remote river in Victoria's east, a fisherman says he has encountered an ultra-rare pink platypus, one of only a handful ...

For the first time ever, a duck-billed platypus was born in captivity. The baby platypus was born to a pair named Jack & Jill in the Healesville animal sanctuary near Melbourne, Australia. Its birth ...