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, ...

The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...

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

The tragic discovery of a dead platypus in the Queanbeyan River has triggered calls for fishers of all ages to make sure they don’t leave anything behind. In recent days, Susan Dalby and Christine ...

Police in Australia launched a public appeal after a 26-year-old man, accompanied by a woman, was spotted on a suburban train with a wild platypus swaddled in a towel. The man, who faces court ...

One of Australia's rarest - and most loved - animals has been found drowned, entangled in fishing tackle in the Queanbeyan ...

Landholders living alongside a northern NSW creek say a government plan to demolish a weir to improve fish migration will be ...