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

Principal investigator Haojing Yan, for a small team of astronomers at the University of Missouri, compared the discovery to ...

The duck-billed platypus is close to being wiped out permanently partly due to climate change, scientists have warned. Increasing numbers of the unique animal are becoming stranded as rivers dry up, ...

It’s a semi-aquatic exotic with some remarkable traits! This week, we’re exploring the strange but true story of the platypus. * Platypuses use “electrolocation” while feeding, sending out impulses ...

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 ...

May 8 -- WEDNESDAY, May 7 (HealthDay News) -- An international team of scientists has published the first analysis of the genome sequence of the duck-billed platypus, one of the few mammals that lays ...

Scientists have sequenced the duck-billed platypus' genome. And it's as messed up as the animal itself.<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip ...