Another detail visible in the footage was a white marking on the top of the platypus's bill.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You might know the platypus as Australia's iconic shy, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, egg-laying mammal. Unfortunately, ...

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Platypus populations in Australia are becoming increasingly isolated as ...

A 26-year-old man has been charged with allegedly removing a platypus from its natural habitat in Morayfield, a town in Australia, Queensland Police said on Thursday following a hunt for the suspect ...

A young platypus was found weak, dehydrated, and covered in dozens of blood-sucking ticks, pushing it to the edge of death..

If the platypus looks like a mixture of bird and mammal features, it's because it is. University of Sydney / Doug Gimesy Researchers recently published the most complete, detailed platypus genome ever ...

After the 2020 bushfires destroyed a lot of koala habitat across New South Wales, there were dire concerns about the future of the species. Bushfires cause riverbank erosion, making it hard for ...