A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

Also in the park, you might get lucky and sight the shy, elusive platypus on the park’s platypus water holes walk. Echidnas are also rare but not so elusive as the platypus. The island’s ...

There had been no confirmed platypus sightings in the Royal National Park since the 1970s. But all that changed recently when four females were released, marking the first attempt at rewilding the ...

Credit: UNSW Centre of Ecosystem Science One of Australia’s most unique and iconic species, the platypus, has been reintroduced into the country’s oldest national park just south of Sydney.