(PhysOrg.com) -- The brain activity of ostriches in REM sleep is unique, alternating between fast, small waves - characteristic of REM sleep in other birds, and large, slow waves typical of those ...

* Platypuses use “ electrolocation ” while feeding, sending out impulses since their eyes, ears and nose are closed off ...

Emily McColl-Gausden receives funding from San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, The University of Melbourne and the Ecological Society of Australia. Andrew Weeks is a Director at EnviroDNA, a company that ...

The San Diego Zoo Safari Park welcomed on Friday the arrival of two platypuses — the only ones in any zoo outside the endangered animals’ native Australia. The two platypuses were flown to San Diego ...

San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance is partnering with an Australian zoo to study how climate change is affecting platypuses as a way to save the egg-laying mammal. The species is declining because of ...

SAN DIEGO — San Diego Zoo Global was recently given two platypuses from the Taronga Zoo Sydney. These two animals are the first platypuses that are on display outside of Australia. The two will live ...

“The platypus is the most touchy, temperamental, unpredictable animal,” says Australia’s David Fleay, and he should know. Called “the platypus man,” Fleay is the world’s leading authority on one of ...

The number of platypuses in the world has already decreased in half, research shows Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Her work ...

After decades of being locally extinct, platypuses were released back into the wild in New South Wales, Australia, on Sunday. So far, five females have been released in Royal National Park and will be ...

May 18, 2012, 12:20 PM EDT / Source: Discovery Channel Safety really is in the numbers for some of Australia's iconic animals with a new study showing small island populations of platypus are in ...

The platypus is one of the oddest animals you’ll ever see. Aboriginal Australian legend says that the platypus was born after a female duck mated with a water-rat. British naturalist George Shaw, who ...