The duck-billed platypus is close to being wiped out permanently partly due to climate change, scientists have warned. Increasing numbers of the unique animal are becoming stranded as rivers dry up, ...

Researchers analyzed the DNA of platypuses in dammed and undammed rivers The results reportedly indicate that platypuses haven't passed the dams "since they were built" This could make them more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SYDNEY — Scientists in Australia are preparing to reintroduce platypuses to the country’s oldest national park after they ...

A new report finds platypus numbers are declining in Australia, prompting the authors of the report to call for the species to be listed as endangered. Stuart Cohen One of Australia’s most adored ...

The platypus is one of the strangest animals on Earth, a furred, duck-billed, egg-laying mammal that seems assembled from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The duck-billed platypus feeds mainly on aquatic invertebrates that it catches in the water. It carries them back to the surface ...

Platypuses are back at Australia’s oldest national park after disappearing from it roughly 50 years ago. On Friday, wildlife officials released four females inside Royal National Park, located south ...