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 ...

The platypus is perhaps the most bizarre creature on the planet. It’s a venomous, egg-laying, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed mammal. Those things simply aren’t supposed to go together. In ...

A 26-year-old man has been charged with allegedly removing a platypus from its natural habitat in Morayfield, a town in Australia, Queensland Police said on Thursday following a hunt for the suspect ...

The platypus is arguably one of the most distinct animals on the planet. Here are a few things you might not have known about this quirky creature. A platypus’s bill has thousands of cells that give ...

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 ...

After the 2020 bushfires destroyed a lot of koala habitat across New South Wales, there were dire concerns about the future of the species. Bushfires cause riverbank erosion, making it hard for ...

You’ve heard the joke: “After God finished making all the animals, He took the leftover parts and made the platypus.” While the platypus does not, in fact, have an actual beaver’s tail nor a duck’s ...

Reclaimed. Remade. Reclayed. The legendary Platypus returns! 22 years after its first appearance, the iconic indie shoot ’em up Platypus is coming back, better than ever! Led by the original creator ...

Poor water management of the Murray-Darling Basin combined with a lack of water is to blame for an alarming decrease in platypus numbers in that area, researchers say. Scientists at the University of ...

In a classroom in Fisk Hall, a small group of students sits down to talk about the intricacies of Karl Marx’s philosophy. Every week, the students discuss different readings on topics ranging from ...