SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian conservationists on Wednesday unveiled plans to build the world's first refuge for the platypus, to promote breeding and rehabilitation as the duck-billed mammal faces ...

Principal investigator Haojing Yan, for a small team of astronomers at the University of Missouri, compared the discovery to ...

The duck-billed platypus is close to being wiped out permanently partly due to climate change, scientists have warned. Increasing numbers of the unique animal are becoming stranded as rivers dry up, ...

Platypuses are back at Australia’s oldest national park after disappearing from it roughly 50 years ago. On Friday, wildlife officials released four females inside Royal National Park, located south ...

The platypus is such a strange animal that it was originally thought to be an elaborate hoax by pranksters When European ...