The platypus, a native of eastern Australia, is a puzzling creature with features from birds, mammals, and reptiles. Male ...

Echidnas don't have very good vision, but they have a strong sense of smell and hearing. When they feel threatened, echidnas will roll into a ball so that only their spiky back is exposed. Echidnas ...

“On-ground project works will address these threats to platypus,” Ms Nigro said. “The aim is that these combined actions will improve local platypus numbers over time.” In addition to benefiting the ...

Tiny, spiny echidnas and the duck‑billed platypus already look like misfits, but the bigger oddity hides in their DNA. For most mammals, a gene on the Y chromosome called SRY flips the switch for ...

You may know a ton of fun facts about animals, but we bet you haven't heard these jaw-dropping truths Are you up on your fun facts about animals? For every extraordinary creature on the planet, there ...

Learn more about linebacker Carson Bruener in this edition of Five Fast Facts. 1. The Steelers selected Bruener in the seventh round of the 2025 NFL Draft out of the University of Washington with the ...

We are experiencing a dangerous decline in nature and humans are causing it: We are using the equivalent of 1.6 Earths to maintain our current way of life and ecosystems cannot keep up with our ...

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It looks like someone got halfway through building one animal, forgot what they were doing, and stuck half of another animal on the other end and called it a day. Like the endlessly fascinating ...

Amid a week of protests in Chicago and across the country, U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Ky, chair of the House Oversight committee, began today’s hearing on state sanctuary policies accusing the governors ...

It was in this context that a strange and secretive mission was launched: a live platypus called Winston was to be shipped across the globe from Australia to meet his namesake before entering the care ...

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