The so-called prehistoric platypus certainly didn't look intelligent. ... badgers and the duck-billed platypus," said study lead researcher Ryosuke Motani, ... Images: 25 Amazing Ancient ...

Platypuses sweat the milk. They sweat the milk. To be more specific, the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) writes that “the platypus [has] no nipples.” ...

One of the most unusual mounted specimens in the Bruce Museum science collection is the duck-billed platypus, a native of eastern Australia including Tasmania. The country down under is home to ...

For the first time ever, a duck-billed platypus was born in captivity. The baby platypus was born to a pair named Jack & Jill in the Healesville animal sanctuary near Melbourne, Australia. Its ...

Shaw published the first scientific description of it, dubbing it Platypus anatinus (or “flat-footed duck”). For reasons that are boring except to scientists and fans of taxonomic nomenclature, it was ...

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 ...