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May 8 -- WEDNESDAY, May 7 (HealthDay News) -- An international team of scientists has published the first analysis of the genome sequence of the duck-billed platypus, one of the few mammals that lays ...

The duck-billed platypus was plucked from a Melbourne river, nicknamed Winston and shipped off on a 45-day voyageCredit: Getty - Contributor Its fate was covered up to avoid a public outcry and when ...

Scientists have sequenced the duck-billed platypus' genome. And it's as messed up as the animal itself.<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Scientists say one of the world's most unique animal species, the duck-billed-platypus, is on "brink of extinction." The platypus is part-mammal, ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - From high altitudes to tropical rainforests, platypuses are native to Eastern Australia. When it was first scientifically described in 1799, it was laughed at and checked for ...

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Scientists surveying turtles saw a leucistic white platypus, the first ever recorded, in a river of New South Wales, videos show. Photo from Streeting, Daugherty, Burrows, Bower, Watson, Daugherty and ...

It's the Platypus Trophy, and precisely like its namesake, it has spent the past 66 years stealthily burrowing its way in and out of obscurity along the 44 miles that separate Corvallis and Eugene.

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Platypus populations across Australia are being put at risk of extinction, with a recent drought having a severe impact on the iconic species. "They're all dead, they're gone," one conservationist ...