Imagine a creature that looks like a mashup from a child’s wildest dreams: a furry animal with the bill of a duck, the tail ...

The baby platypus was born to a pair named Jack & Jill in the Healesville animal sanctuary near Melbourne, Australia. Its birth was a big surprise to naturalists.

The baby platypus is born around 1.5 centimetres long but rapidly grows, reaching about 20 times its birth size after 14 weeks. It only emerges from the burrow once it's three or four months old.

Now her baby's out of the burrow, he'll have to find his own way in the world. (birds chittering) Zoom's youngster gives me hope that platypus can continue living in this city. (light music fades out) ...

The baby platypus is born around 1.5 centimetres long but rapidly grows, reaching about 20 times its birth size after 14 weeks. It only emerges from the burrow once it's three or four months old.

Despite their awkward appearance, the platypus has a superpower-like sixth sense that it uses to hunt ... Monotremes differ from other mammals because they lay eggs instead of giving birth.

Baby Platypus Caught on Camera. Clip: Season 42 Episode 1 | 3m 11s Video has Closed Captions | CC. A female platypus, dubbed Zoom, preps a nesting site after the mating season.

Now that her baby is out of the burrow, he'll have to find his own way in the world. Zoom's youngster gives me hope that platypus can continue living in this city. SUBJECTS: Science , Technologies ...

"No one has cracked the code to understand what conditions you have to prepare to get a platypus to breed," Nollens said. Since 1943, only 23 puggles (as baby platypuses are known) have been born ...

The return of platypus to the Royal National Park was the first translocation program for platypus in New South Wales and aims to re-establish a self-sustaining and genetically diverse platypus ...