The nineteenth century saw a number of hoax animals on display, such as P T Barnum's Fiji (Feejee) Mermaid and Albert Koch's Missouri Leviathan. But the platypus, as it was soon realised, was not ...

The platypus is arguably one of the most distinct animals on the planet. Here are a few things you might not have known about this quirky creature. Platypuses (platypodes and platypi are technically ...

After reviewing the images, platypus expert Dr Tamielle Brunt described them as “incredible”. The Wildlife Queensland ...

Platypus DNA was discovered in creeks in Brimbank as part of an ongoing Melbourne Water monitoring program. Performed as part ...

You might know the platypus as Australia's iconic shy, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, egg-laying mammal.

“If you are lucky enough to see a platypus in the wild, keep your distance.” With stubby tails like a beaver and the bill of a duck, platypuses were famously seen as a hoax by British ...

The platypus data is therefore a lens that can help us see what novelties arose during that 160 million year window on both the eutherian and monotreme sides of the split. One particularly ...

An Aussie man was enjoying an “early morning fish” with a mate on Monday when a loud thrashing in the water nearby captured ...

Pictures taken by an ecologist on the weekend show a long carpet python with a platypus clenched in its jaws. Elliot Bowerman told Yahoo News he spotted the strange interaction while walking ...

The Werribee River is among the waterways that Melbourne Water’s platypus surveys will track for this spring’s breeding ...

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