When an Australian scientist uncovered an ancient-looking placoderm skull in the 1960s, he thought he'd cracked the code on an evolutionary mystery. This so-called 'platypus fish,' scientists had ...

When Geoff Williams found and tagged a one-year-old male platypus as part of a survey in November 2000, he probably didn’t anticipate ever seeing the animal again. But more than two decades later, in ...

You might know the platypus as Australia's iconic shy, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, egg-laying mammal. Unfortunately, the odd animal is also struggling to survive. This is why Australia ...

The San Diego Zoo is joining an international collaboration project to ensure the survival of one of nature's truly unique animals — the platypus. Scientists with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance ...