Wading through the water with their furry bodies, duck bills and webbed feet, the platypus is one of Australia's most unique mammals. But they're at risk - with Australian scientists calling on Monday ...

They're at the world’s largest conservation center for the Australian duck-billed mammals. ::Dubbo, Australia There are streams, waterfalls, and banks of earth to burrow in, custom-built to simulate a ...

The San Diego Zoo Safari Park welcomed on Friday the arrival of two platypuses — the only ones in any zoo outside the endangered animals’ native Australia. The two platypuses were flown to San Diego ...

SAN DIEGO — San Diego Zoo Global was recently given two platypuses from the Taronga Zoo Sydney. These two animals are the first platypuses that are on display outside of Australia. The two will live ...

A 26-year-old man has been charged with allegedly removing a platypus from its natural habitat in Morayfield, a town in Australia, Queensland Police said on Thursday following a hunt for the suspect ...

San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance is partnering with an Australian zoo to study how climate change is affecting platypuses as a way to save the egg-laying mammal. The species is declining because of ...

Luis Mijangos receives funding from UNSW Canberra, Australian Research Council, Taronga Conservation Society, and the Australian Government’s Environmental Water Holder. The platypus is one of Earth’s ...

Snow has blanketed Tasmania as winter begins in the southern hemisphere and makes the water icy for one iconic creature. Matt Palmer via Unsplash Winter has hit the southern hemisphere, and with it, ...

The platypus, a beloved emblem of Australia and a symbol of the strangeness of evolution, is at risk of extinction. That’s according to a new study published in the February issue of Biological ...