A third shows a platypus standing on cactus, with claws rather than webbed feet. Together, they suggest snapshots from an alternate reality. Sbarge's art is the focus of a nearly ...

When a platypus is on dry land, it can even retract the webbing on its front paws to reveal large claws for digging. The tail of a platypus is wide and flat, almost like that of a beaver.

A platypus loses its teeth when it starts eating solid food, because, of course. They then develop discs made of keratin (like the material that makes up hooves and claws) that they use to help ...

A snowy platypus encounter in Tasmania’s winter wonderland! ... Their paddle-like tail acts as a fat reserve, and they have strong claws that are used for burrowing on land, ...

Fossils of a 70 million-year-old platypus relative called Patagorhynchus pascuali found in South America show that egg-laying mammals evolved on ... newly discovered claw-mark fossils suggest ...

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding could upend what’s known of their evolution.

Another features a pelican with a woman’s head, wearing a bugle as a crown. A third shows a platypus standing on cactus, with claws rather than webbed feet. Together, ...