Discover more about the egg-laying monotremes of Oceania and the ancient traits they still carry.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - From high altitudes to tropical rainforests, platypuses are native to Eastern Australia. When it was first scientifically described in 1799, it was laughed at and checked for ...

Platypuses are so weird scientists sliced them open because they thought they were fake. But why? Male platypus have ven ...

With a beaver’s tail, webbed feet, and a duck’s bill, platypuses are one of the world’s strangest-looking creatures. They are such an unusual mammal that the first scientists to study them believed ...