“There is a python with a platypus in its mouth,” Elliot Bowerman’s friend called out as the two walked through a forest in Queensland, Australia. Sure enough, in the nearby creek, a two-meter-long ...

“The platypus is the most touchy, temperamental, unpredictable animal,” says Australia’s David Fleay, and he should know. Called “the platypus man,” Fleay is the world’s leading authority on one of ...

A researcher working with the San Diego Zoo worries Australia’s recent wildfires may be hurting the country’s platypus population. The wildfires were so widespread and damaging that they fouled many ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Australia’s famed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is one funky ...

SYDNEY — Scientists in Australia are preparing to reintroduce platypuses to the country’s oldest national park after they disappeared from the area almost 50 years ago, embarking on an ambitious plan ...

With a beaver’s tail, webbed feet, and a duck’s bill, platypuses are one of the world’s strangest-looking creatures. They are such an unusual mammal that the first scientists to study them believed ...

Stopping up rivers where platypuses reside is restricting the odd animals’ migration patterns and causing inbreeding, scientists say. By Nicholas Bakalar The duck-billed platypus faces many threats — ...

Platypuses are back at Australia’s oldest national park after disappearing from it roughly 50 years ago. On Friday, wildlife officials released four females inside Royal National Park, located south ...

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Rescued from Australia’s fires, a small fleet of wild platypuses is launched back into their wetland home and into an uncertain future. A sedated female platypus received a physical exam at the ...

Australia's emerging pattern of severe mega bushfires and heavy rainfall may be driving platypuses from their homes, a new study has shown. Analysis of platypus DNA in rivers and creek water samples ...