The natural world is full of animals that seem to defy logic, blurring the line between reality and imagination. Some look ...

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

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 San Diego Zoo is joining an international collaboration project to ensure the survival of one of nature's truly unique animals — the platypus. Scientists with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance ...

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.

In a collaborative project between NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Taronga Conservation Society Australia, UNSW Sydney and WWF-Australia, five female platypus have been released into the ...

The young platypus was stuck on a concrete bridge, frantically searching for safety as flood water thundered below. Onlookers followed her with phone cameras. Footage of the lost little creature went ...

Life for the duck-billed platypus has never seemed easy. With its bizarre bird-like beak, mammalian fur and reptilian gait and egg-laying habits, the platypus long mystified natural historians, who ...