When Europeans first encountered the odd-looking platypus, it became the centre of scientific debate: was it real or just an elaborate hoax? The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) has a puzzling ...

When we think of mammals, we usually think of animals that give birth to live babies, like lions or humans. But there’s a ...

Thank you for praying for our family in the death of my wife’s brother this week. He is the first of seven sibs to pass away. While waiting in a ...

The platypus is an adorable little mammal with a beak like a duck and a body like a beaver. Found primarily in Australia, the ...

A team of scientists from Australia and the United Kingdom has finally elucidated the strange sex chromosome system of the duck-billed platypus. The first study, the findings of which are published ...

Australia is home to some truly unique and unexpected creatures, but few are quite as strange and fascinating as the platypus ...

An asteroid the size of 18 platypus is set to pass much closer to the Earth than the Moon on Thursday, March 30, according to NASA's asteroid tracker. The asteroid in question has been designated ...