You might know the platypus as Australia's iconic shy, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, egg-laying mammal. Unfortunately, the odd animal is also struggling to survive. This is why Australia ...

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Platypus populations in Australia are becoming increasingly isolated as their habitats are fragmented by human-made dams. As a result, the long-term survival of this distinctive species is falling ...

You might think you know why the platypus is a bizarre beast. Maybe you know that it lays eggs, that the males have venomous spurs on their ankles, and that it can sense electricity with its bill. But ...

Learn to draw the unusual platypus and another Australian water creature, the crocodile. Learn to draw one of the world’s most unusual animals, the platypus and another Australian water creature, the ...

Oh, those daring young people in their flying machines. Later this month 35 teams will gather in the Twin Cities to test their homemade, human-powered flying machines by flying or pushing them off a ...

A new genetic study finds large dams restrict platypus movement, with significant implications for their conservation. The platypus is possibly the most irreplaceable mammal existing today. They have ...

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 ...