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 ...

The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by a lone fossil specimen that scientists now say represents a long-extinct ancestor. The ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - From high altitudes to tropical rainforests, platypuses are native to Eastern Australia. When it was first scientifically described in 1799, it was laughed at and checked for ...

Laura A. B. Wilson receives funding from the Australian Research Council Robin Beck receives funding from the UK's National Environmental Research Council, and the Australian Research Council. Camilo ...

Two years after the historic return of platypuses to Australia's oldest national park, scientists have released another three animals as part of the second phase of a conservation program. A total of ...