Researchers worked with Indigenous Rangers to map life in 34 estuaries across NSW using environmental DNA - and made a host of unexpected discoveries.

Platypus. Image via Unsplash The duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) belongs to a small group of mammals called monotremes. While nearly all other mammals give birth to live young, ...

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However, the specialized cells on the platypus’s bill allow it to pick up electric pulses. This sixth sense in the platypus is called electrolocation and it’s a highly effective method of hunting.

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The Platypus Rescue HQ at Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo, Australia, got its first four animals earlier this month. Eventually, it will be able to house as many as 64.

The milk pools in the grooves of their skin, allowing their young, called puggles, to lap it up. But of course, since platypuses are aquatic, they don’t produce regular sweat at all.

“Platypus are such weird animals that it would make sense for them to have weird biochemistry,” said Janet Newman, a scientist at Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, in a statement.

Platypus Cafe opened at 1901 Broad St., formerly home to Broad Street Giant Grinder Shop, in late 2023. “We gave our sleep, blood, sweat and tears to get these doors open for our community.