When initial reports of a creature that combined the feet of an otter, the tail of a beaver and the bill of a duck arrived on the shores of 18th-century London, doubt was thick. Skeptics were further ...

With a beaver’s tail, webbed feet, and a duck’s bill, platypuses are one of the world’s strangest-looking creatures. They are such an unusual mammal that the first scientists to study them believed ...

If you’ve always thought echidnas and platypuses were distant cousins who went their separate ways on land and water, think again. A single fossilized arm bone, found in a remote corner of ...

SYDNEY, Australia – Platypuses are at risk of extinction due to Australia’s devastating droughts and other threats, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of New South Wales ...

Laura A. B. Wilson receives funding from the Australian Research Council Robin Beck receives funding from the UK's National Environmental Research Council, and the Australian Research Council. Camilo ...

Ask any dog owner and they’ll tell you: Nearly every dog can sniff out the miniscule crumbs of lunch left behind on a pair of jeans or the betrayal of their human petting another pup. But in recent ...