The platypus is an adorable little mammal with a beak like a duck and a body like a beaver. Found primarily in Australia, the ...

Scientists have quasi-solved a longstanding mystery surrounding the origins of platypus and echidnas, the strangest mammals on Earth. A recent reanalysis of a 108-million-year-old bone challenged ...

When Europeans first encountered the odd-looking platypus, it became the centre of scientific debate: was it real or just an elaborate hoax? The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) has a puzzling ...

They’ve long thought that monotremes — egg-laying mammals that include the platypus and hedgehog-like creatures known as echidnas — originated on land. The platypus took the occasional aquatic foray, ...