Baby platypuses are irresistibly cute. Their tiny bills, soft, fluffy fur, and awkward little flippers make them look like ...

An artist's illustration of an ancient platypus-like creature against a gray background. Around 70 million years ago, a small, furry, platypus-like creature shuffled along the banks of an ancient lake ...

Jars of tiny platypus and echidna specimens, collected in the late 1800s by the scientist William Caldwell, have been discovered in the stores of Cambridge's University Museum of Zoology. Jars of tiny ...

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The platypus, a beloved emblem of Australia and a symbol of the strangeness of evolution, is at risk of extinction. That’s according to a new study published in the February issue of Biological ...

We’re here to tell you: The egg came first. The story of the egg spans millions of years, from the first vertebrates that dared to venture onto land to today’s mammals, including the platypus, and of ...

When British zoologist George Shaw first encountered a platypus specimen in 1799, he was so befuddled that he checked for stitches, thinking someone might be trying to trick him with a Frankencreature ...

If there was a poster animal for diversification, it would have to be the platypus. It looks like an otter that’s gone trick-or-treating as a duck. It’s a mashup that inspired Mark Anthony Libre to ...

The genomes of egg-laying monotreme mammals, platypus and echidna, have been published in the prestigious journal Nature, providing a valuable public resource for research in mammalian biology and ...

Jars of 150-year-old platypus and echidna specimens that prove some mammals lay eggs have been discovered at an English museum. Collected in the late 1800s by the scientist William Caldwell, the tiny ...