The platypus is an adorable little mammal with a beak like a duck and a body like a beaver. Found primarily in Australia, the ...

What on earth is a Platypus? Even its name seems strange, though not nearly as strange as the animal it belongs to. When Europeans first heard the startling news of a newly discovered creature cal ...

It was the way this male Platypus moved -- he never sat still. I decided to name him Scoot. Oh. Oh, dude, you're so close. He's over there. [ Laughs ] That's actually pretty cool. [ Laughs ...

Found in Australia and New Guinea, the platypus and echidna are called monotremes, and they are unique for being the only mammals that lay eggs. The amphibious platypus has a bill and webbed feet ...

Tasmania, the island state of Australia, sits about 150 miles south of the mainland and was hit with a “ cold snap ” that ...

But that doesn't make platypuses any less cool. Evidence of the platypus' existence, or at least a member of its family, dates back over 60 million years. And that was back when Australia ...

there are likely ancient platypus bones deep beneath the ice. But as a South American paleontologist, Novas said, it's pretty cool to know that "the great grand-father of the Australian ...

Australia’s echidna has developed a curious way to cool off — blowing bubbles out ... Tasmania and New Guinea and along with the platypus, it’s one of Earth’s few monotremes — mammals ...

“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 ...