"Everyone was so happy." Trail cameras capture images of unique creature not seen in decades: 'It was the first time everyone ...

As it swims in the water, it’s looking for a sign of life. Unless you live in Australia, the only place you can see a platypus in action is at the zoo. In the wild, they live near freshwater ...

A new project using AI helped the Djabugay Bulmba Rangers in North Queensland identify the shy creatures at three sites.

Conservationists warn a rare sighting of a platypus does not indicate a healthy population of the iconic Australian animal. Credit: UNSW Centre of Ecosystem Science One of Australia’s most ...

Forget the Hollywood thriller Snakes on a Plane, an Australian man is in trouble for taking a platypus on a train. Police launched a public appeal after the 26-year-old man, accompanied by a woman ...

Australia is home to some truly unique and unexpected creatures, but few are quite as strange and fascinating as the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). The platypus doesn’t fit into any partic ...

One of the world’s strangest looking animals has been rapidly vanishing from Australian waterways. When ranger Alfred Hunter was growing up in remote Queensland, he’d hear stories from the ...

Five of the six jurisdictions where the animal lives have banned the use of a controversial trap. But one is holding out.

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