The platypus has long been one of nature’s most bewildering creatures. It lays eggs. It has a duck-like bill and a ...

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

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

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

They already have the bill of a duck, the tail of a beaver, lay eggs like reptiles and have venom like snakes.

Platypuses are the first mammals known to have hollow melanosomes, pigment-bearing structures found in the hair of many animals.

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 ...

The San Diego Zoo is joining an international collaboration project to ensure the survival of one of nature's truly unique animals — the platypus. Scientists with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance ...

An adored and treasured platypus at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park passed away on Wednesday, the non-profit announced. The ...

The world’s first platypus conservation center is now open. The initiative will serve as a beacon of hope for the semi-aquatic species whose population has been declining for decades. The Platypus ...

You’ve heard the joke: “After God finished making all the animals, He took the leftover parts and made the platypus.” While the platypus does not, in fact, have an actual beaver’s tail nor a duck’s ...