The platypus isn’t just a strange animal — it’s a puzzle piece that shouldn’t exist. It lays eggs like a reptile, has fur ...

You might think you know why the platypus is a bizarre beast. Maybe you know that it lays eggs, that the males have venomous spurs on their ankles, and that it can sense electricity with its bill. But ...

“There is a python with a platypus in its mouth,” Elliot Bowerman’s friend called out as the two walked through a forest in Queensland, Australia. Sure enough, in the nearby creek, a two-meter-long ...

The platypus is rare among mammals, laying eggs rather than bearing live offspring. Even rarer is a 200-pound platypus egg that hatches into a helicopter as it careens off a 30-foot cliff into the ...

It’s a semi-aquatic exotic with some remarkable traits! This week, we’re exploring the strange but true story of the platypus. * Platypuses use “electrolocation” while feeding, sending out impulses ...

The platypus sports fur like a mammal, paddles its duck feet like a bird and lays eggs in the manner of a reptile. Nature's instruction manual for this oddball, it turns out, is just as much of a ...

If there was a poster animal for diversification, it would have to be the platypus. It looks like an otter that’s gone trick-or-treating as a duck. It’s a mashup that inspired Mark Anthony Libre to ...

SINCE writing the notice of Mr. le Souef's book on Australian wild life in NATURE for October 24 (vol. lxxvi., P. 635), I have been making inquiries as to the existence in collections of any examples ...

For six years the earnest curators of New York’s Bronx Zoo have busied themselves with the delicate problem of platypus family life. Platypus reproduction is a baffling business, for platypuses are ...