The platypus uses its super-sensitive bill to find its dinner. A platypus bill may look like a duck’s bill, but it has a secret ability. The bill contains receptor cells that detect the electric ...

The platypus doesn’t fit into any particular category: it’s a mammal, but it lays eggs like a reptile. It has a duck-like bill and webbed feet, but its otter-like body ends with a tail like a ...

The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) has a puzzling array of features. Not only does it have that iconic duck bill, it lays eggs like a bird or reptile but feeds milk to its young like a mammal.

The sequencing of the platypus genome has received a high amount of misleading press attention. What does this information really tell us about this strangely unique animal and its genetic past?

Pete Walsh 'Platypus Guardian' is conducting walking ... and came across a platypus that had a plastic band around its bill. He said in that moment he realised he “had to do something, not ...

such as the platypus. This egg-laying mammal intrigued Europeans when they saw images of it for the first time, with its beaver-like body and duck's bill. Relatively unknown during their lifetimes, ...