The baby platypus is born around 1.5 centimetres long but rapidly grows, reaching about 20 times its birth size after 14 weeks. It only emerges from the burrow once it's three or four months old. ...

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(light music) (water rushing softly) Young platypus are so vulnerable and so clumsy. (water splashing) But Zoom's work as a mother is done. Now her baby's out of the burrow, he'll have to find his ...

The discovery of a juvenile platypus has left scientists and researchers ecstatic and hopeful. Reportedly, the baby is around six months old, weighs 850 grams, and is in perfect health.

And while no-one has been recorded seeing a platypus hatch, it's thought they look like a gooey, furless echidna hatchling. The baby platypus is born around 1.5 centimetres long but rapidly grows ...