Platypuses are true oddballs. They look like a mish-mash of several animals, with duck-like bills, beaver-like tails and ...

You already know the platypus is strange. It's the animal that lays eggs, has a duck bill, shoots venom from its ankles, and ...

Platypuses are weird looking. They look like someone stitched together a duck and a beaver—flat bill, webbed feet, and a ...

The combination of a beaver-like body and duck-like bill of the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is only the first of a ...

Outliers among mammals, monotremes lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young. Only two types of monotremes, the platypus and echidna, still exist, but more monotreme species were around about 100 ...

It is venomous, can sense electricity and glows under UV light. Now researchers have uncovered something else remarkable ...

Monotremes are a class of mammals that are known as egg laying mammals; they are a special group of mammals that lactate to ...

The identification of a key gene in monotremes has increased our understanding of why the stomachs of platypuses and echidnas are atypically small, non-acidic, and, in the instance of platypuses, lack ...

Nearly 230 years after its discovery, the platypus is still finding new ways to baffle the scientific community.

The Australian platypus is one of Earth’s most unusual creatures — but there was a time when it might not have stood out in a crowd. In roughly 100-million-year-old rocks in Australia, scientists have ...