Australian trail cameras have caught what's perhaps the most unique animal on Earth outside of Sasquatch. The footage from Flaggy Creek proves the platypus — unlike Bigfoot — is, in fact ...

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

Forget the Hollywood thriller Snakes on a Plane, an Australian man is in trouble for taking a platypus on a train. Police launched a public appeal after the 26-year-old man, accompanied by a woman ...

When we think of mammals, we usually think of animals that give birth to live babies, like lions or humans. But there’s a ...

A team of scientists led by Australian Museum and UNSW Sydney palaeontologist, Dr Matthew McCurry, have described a new ...

Conservationists warn a rare sighting of a platypus does not indicate a healthy population of the iconic Australian animal. Credit: UNSW Centre of Ecosystem Science One of Australia’s most ...

The world’s biggest platypus conservation centre has welcomed its first residents as part of a project to protect the semi-aquatic mammal found only in Australia. The species’ habitat is under ...

“It’s an area that we know has a lot of snakes and platypus,” Keiselis told Yahoo News Australia on Wednesday. “So we wandered down to this little creek area, and low and behold there was ...

Surely, a memorable time for most of us... A new play by the Berlin-based Australian Platypus Theatre explores the subject, in English, for a German audience. Discover extraordinary books that ...