Learn about the modern platypus' ancient ancestor, which swam in the same inland lakes as dolphins and had teeth tough enough ...

Australia's platypus, one of the world's most enigmatic animals, had a more exotic origin story, according to an exciting ...

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

Fossils reveal an ancient platypus species (Obdurodon insignis) that still had teeth, offering insight into how this unusual ...

Researchers have discovered ancient platypus fossils in outback South Australia, where they are believed to have lived with ...

Platypuses are peculiar animals native to Australia. They have a bill like a duck, lay eggs like chickens, swim like beavers and produce milk like cows. Their most mundane feature might be their brown ...

The platypus is so bizarre that it famously led early European scientists to suspect someone had stitched it together from ...

What on earth is a platypus? Even its name seems strange. When Europeans first heard the startling news of a newly discovered creature called the “platypus,” most of them thought it was just a joke.

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 ...

Scientists surveying turtles saw a leucistic white platypus, the first ever recorded, in a river of New South Wales, videos show. Photo from Streeting, Daugherty, Burrows, Bower, Watson, Daugherty and ...