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, ...

In a remote river in Victoria's east, a fisherman says he has encountered an ultra-rare pink platypus, one of only a handful ...

When cuteness was being handed out, the platypus was out partying. When he eventually showed up, covered in body glitter, all that remained in the animal anatomy box were the body part equivalents of ...

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.

Cody Stylianou captured video of 'Pinky' feeding at a fishing spot in Gippsland ...

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 ...

A man has been charged with illegally taking a platypus from the wild and parading it at a local shopping centre, as fears grow for the animal's wellbeing. The 26-year-old unnamed man was captured on ...

Police are searching for a platypus believed to have been taken from its natural habitat on Tuesday morning. It's alleged the animal was taken from the wild in Queensland's Moreton district at about ...

Now, researchers have found that the genome that underlies these disparate traits is as diverse as the platypus itself. “The platypus genome, like the animal itself, is an amazing amalgam of ...

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 ...