Imagine a creature that looks like a mashup from a child’s wildest dreams: a furry animal with the bill of a duck, the tail ...

Imagine an animal so baffling that the world’s best scientists once thought it was a hoax. A beast with the bill of a duck, ...

A small bone found 30 years ago at Dinosaur Cove could revolutionize our understanding of echidnas and platypuses' evolution.

As the world's only surviving egg-laying mammals, Australasia's platypus and four echidna species are among the most ...

We can’t take risks like that.” Fleay is still trying, without much hope, to catch a replacement for Paddy. Most of this year’s crop of young platypuses are already too mature. Last week ...

As the world’s only surviving egg-laying mammals, Australasia’s platypus and four echidna species are among the most extraordinary animals on Earth. They are also very different from each other.

A study of a 100-million-year-old bone suggests the ancient relative of the echidna and the platypus was semiaquatic — and ...