The platypus is an evolutionary anomaly. This duck-billed, semiaquatic mammal is both unique and rare. It’s just one of five egg-laying mammals on the planet. It nurses its young. And it also has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SYDNEY — Scientists in Australia are preparing to reintroduce platypuses to the country’s oldest national park after they ...

The future of the platypus, a unique duck-billed, egg-laying mammal only found in Australia, is under threat because they cannot climb over tall river dams, according to a new study. The platypus is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Police in Queensland, Australia, released surveillance images of a man in flip-flops carrying a platypus onto a train. Police in ...

I have only seen one platypus in the wild in my three-quarters of a century, despite extensive travels across Australia’s vast outdoors. It was in a pool below a waterfall on the Atherton Tablelands ...

Platypuses are back at Australia’s oldest national park after disappearing from it roughly 50 years ago. On Friday, wildlife officials released four females inside Royal National Park, located south ...

A 26-year-old man has been charged with allegedly removing a platypus from its natural habitat in Morayfield, a town in Australia, Queensland Police said on Thursday following a hunt for the suspect ...

Australian Unity has decided to shut down Platypus Asset Management, the group's Australian equities subsidiary, after completing a review of the operation. Australian Unity wealth & capital markets ...