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The Platypus is not listed as Endangered, but it is “Near Threatened.” Its population is trending downwards due to loss of habitat from climate change and land clearing. Like many other ...

A new project using AI helped the Djabugay Bulmba Rangers in North Queensland identify the shy creatures at three sites.

Out on land, the platypus’s short limbs mean it has to exert 30 percent more energy than a similarly sized land-based mammal just to move around. All that said, they do have one particular ...

Australia is home to some truly unique and unexpected creatures, but few are quite as strange and fascinating as the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). The platypus doesn’t fit into any partic ...