By Paul Harvey The platypus is an evolutionary anomaly. This duck-billed, semiaquatic mammal is both unique and rare. It’s ...

Australian Platypus Conservancy says ‘it’s remarkable this animal is still doing as well as he is’ The biologist who first tagged a one-year-old platypus back in 2000 was astonished when it was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the world has focused on koalas badly burned and killed in the Australian bushfires one elusive mammal the duck billed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian scientists pushed on Monday to list the platypus as a vulnerable species after a report showed the ...

Australian authorities have charged a man after he allegedly stole a platypus from the wild and took it onto public transit. The unnamed 26-year-old man faces a fine of up to A$430,000 ($288,500) ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The native Australian platypus could become extinct in the coming years as it struggles to adapt to climate change and extreme conditions. Drought has been the biggest issue ...

An Australian platypus. Photo via Wikimedia Commons. San Diego Zoo Global has partnered with the University of Melbourne and the Australian platypus research group Cesar to develop a DNA tracking ...

"Most people, including Australians, don’t know about most mammals in Australia," says Jack Ashby, author of the new book Platypus Matters . Reading time 5 minutes Eighty-six years ago today, the last ...

I have only seen one platypus in the wild in my three-quarters of a century, despite extensive travels across Australia’s vast outdoors. It was in a pool below a waterfall on the Atherton Tablelands ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The world's largest platypus conservation centre has welcomed its first residents as part of a project to protect the semi-aquatic mammal found only in Australia amid threats to its ...

Learn about the modern platypus' ancient ancestor, which swam in the same inland lakes as dolphins and had teeth tough enough to crack shells. The platypus perfectly embodies the weirdness of ...

For an animal that already looks assembled from spare parts, the platypus has added another twist to its history. Fossils ...