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 ...

(via SciShow) Look, we all think platypuses are weird. Just one look at these beaver-tailed, egg-laying, duck-billed weirdos makes you wonder how we're even both mammals. But I have news for you - ...

The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by a lone fossil specimen that scientists now say represents a long-extinct ancestor. The ...

Laura A. B. Wilson receives funding from the Australian Research Council Robin Beck receives funding from the UK's National Environmental Research Council, and the Australian Research Council. Camilo ...

Two years after the historic return of platypuses to Australia's oldest national park, scientists have released another three animals as part of the second phase of a conservation program. A total of ...