When a platypus specimen reached European scientists in 1798, it looked less like wildlife and more like evidence from a ...

Dec. 23 (UPI) -- An Australian angler spotted what he initially thought to be a massive trout and ended up capturing video of something even stranger: a pink platypus. Victoria resident Cody Stylianou ...

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 begins with a quiet creek and a patch of still water that seems almost too placid to hold anything unusual. Then the surface rolls with a slight ripple. A sleek brown shape glides into view, ...

A Tasmanian man befriends a platypus while protecting the species from urban development. Witness the story of Pete Walsh, a Tasmanian man who befriends a platypus he names Zoom. With the help of ...

When mating, platypus put their bill on each other’s tail, like they’re in a trance, in what filmmaker Pete Walsh dubbed the "platypus love donut." Nature is available to stream on pbs.org and the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Australia’s iconic platypus is under threat as climate change hits the country hard. Intense heat and longer droughts are parching waterways that ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Platypuses are peculiar animals native to Australia. They have a bill like a duck, lay eggs like chickens, swim like beavers and ...

A Tasmanian man befriends a platypus while protecting the species from urban development. Witness the story of Pete Walsh, a Tasmanian man who befriends a platypus he names Zoom. With the help of ...