"Successful and resilient." Researchers thrilled as unique species returns to national park after 50-year absence: 'There was ...

The platypus, a native of eastern Australia, is a puzzling creature with features from birds, mammals, and reptiles. Male ...

Platypuses only live naturally in eastern Australia and Tasmania, and there are an estimated 300,000 left in the world. In dammed rivers, they are divided into small, genetically distinct groups ...

Platypuses are just plain weird. Platypuses are a little smaller than housecats and one of the odder animals to roam the earth. To start with, they're mammals that lay eggs, one of only five such ...

Platypuses eat half their weight daily, and they demand live food. So every day Fleay dispenses 2,000 earthworms. 200 meal grubs, 30 crayfish, chafer grubs and crickets.

Platypuses mainly consume aquatic invertebrates, particularly insect larvae. Their diet also includes free-swimming organisms like shrimps, swimming beetles, water bugs and tadpoles.

One of Australia’s most iconic animals is being driven from its home by a climate-fuelled cycle of mega bushfires and heavy rainfall, a new study shows. The platypus lives exclusively in eastern ...

The natural world, filled with competition for resources and hostile climates, can be tough on animals. To survive, animals have had to adapt in surprising ways, like keeping their blood from ...

Platypuses are native to Australia's freshwater rivers and are part of a rare group of mammals -- the monotremes -- that lay eggs. According to the World Wildlife Fund, ...