Solutions start with awareness and action, especially since some of these heartbreaking deaths might be unintentional. It's ...

A team led by researchers from the University of New South Wales in Australia has established a new platypus colony in the Royal National Park on the banks of the Hacking River outside of Sydney for ...

An Australian man was arrested after being seen with a stolen platypus, which Queensland Police are still searching for. The man took the platypus from its natural habitat on Tuesday and was seen ...

Almost 190 years on, in the place where Charles Darwin first spotted a platypus, the egg-laying mammal seems to have ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The world's largest platypus conservation centre has welcomed its first residents as part of a project to protect the semi-aquatic mammal found only in Australia amid threats to its ...

"Most people, including Australians, don’t know about most mammals in Australia," says Jack Ashby, author of the new book Platypus Matters . reading time 5 minutes Eighty-six years ago today, the last ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The native Australian platypus could become extinct in the coming years as it struggles to adapt to climate change and extreme conditions. Drought has been the biggest issue ...

Australian authorities have charged a man after he allegedly stole a platypus from the wild and took it onto public transit. The unnamed 26-year-old man faces a fine of up to A$430,000 ($288,500) ...

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 ...

Australian scientists pushed on Monday to list the platypus as a vulnerable species after a report showed the habitat of the semi-aquatic native mammal had shrunk more than a fifth in the last 30 ...

The police had appealed for help after the platypus was spotted at a train station in Queensland. The animal was later released, but the authorities have been unable to find it. By Mike Ives A man in ...