Imagine an animal so baffling that the world’s best scientists once thought it was a hoax. A beast with the bill of a duck, the tail of a beaver, the fur of an otter, and the feet of a frog. Now ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...