Now add venom, eggs, and underwater electro-sensing into the mix, and you have the platypus—a creature that tears up the rulebook of biology and throws it in the river.

The platypus is one of the most unusual creatures in the animal kingdom. It looks like it was put together from parts of other animals; females lay eggs, and males are venomous.

A quiet stretch of this turbulent river between Pollacks Bridge and the Nymboida Coaching Station Inn is home to platypus so friendly they sometimes swim up to children splashing in canoes. Pitch your ...

Platypuses are peculiar animals native to Australia. They have a bill like a duck, lay eggs like chickens, swim like beavers and produce milk like cows. Their most mundane feature might be their ...

When you see underwater footage of a platypus foraging, what you do see is water bugs just bailing in every direction, trying to escape it. -There's lots in the main river up there, and there's ...

Elder delights in seeing platypus for first time in 60 years. In four separate images taken in July, the animal can be seen swimming below a clump of thick reeds, before it disappears.

The platypus is possibly the most irreplaceable mammal existing today. They have a unique combination of characteristics, including egg-laying despite being mammals, venomous spurs in males ...

It was a white platypus and it seemed just as keen to observe the researchers going about their work on the Gwydir River, near Armidale in the Northern Tablelands, as they were excited to see it.

Platypus populations impacted by large river dams are more vulnerable to threats. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 11 / 221103140814.htm.