Almost 190 years on, in the place where Charles Darwin first spotted a platypus, the egg-laying mammal seems to have ...

In "Will There Ever Be Another You," Patricia Lockwood turns long COVID and existential dread into art with results both ...

Cuteness is camouflage — and evolution’s most brilliant trick. This episode takes a closer look at how innocent-looking species like the platypus and the pufferfish use their charm to disarm before ...

It's the Platypus Trophy, and precisely like its namesake, it has spent the past 66 years stealthily burrowing its way in and ...

The platypus is one of the most mysterious members of the animal world. Even in the 21st century, there is still so much we don’t know about them. This “odd duck” was once so mysterious that it was ...

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 ...

A team led by researchers from the University of New South Wales in Australia has established a new platypus colony in the Royal National Park on the banks of the Hacking River outside of Sydney for ...

Solutions start with awareness and action, especially since some of these heartbreaking deaths might be unintentional. It's ...

(CNN) — A 26-year-old man has been charged with allegedly removing a platypus from its natural habitat in Morayfield, a town in Australia, Queensland Police said on Thursday following a hunt for the ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

The suspected platypus thief could face a maximum penalty of $431,250. LONDON -- Police in Australia have urgently appealed to the public to help find a man who allegedly took a platypus from its ...