For an animal that already looks assembled from spare parts, the platypus has added another twist to its history. Fossils ...

I have only seen one platypus in the wild in my three-quarters of a century, despite extensive travels across Australia’s vast outdoors. It was in a pool below a waterfall on the Atherton Tablelands ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian conservationists on Wednesday unveiled plans to build the world's first refuge for the platypus, to promote breeding and rehabilitation as the duck-billed mammal faces ...

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 ...

Obdurodon insignis was an ancestor of the modern platypus lived during the late Oligocene period around 25 million years ago ...

The platypus, a species unique to Australia, was reintroduced into the country’s oldest national park just south of Sydney on Friday in a landmark conservation project after disappearing from the area ...

Platypuses are back at Australia’s oldest national park after disappearing from it roughly 50 years ago. On Friday, wildlife officials released four females inside Royal National Park, located south ...

These rivers and lakes supported a wide variety of animals, including lungfish, flamingos, and freshwater dolphins.

After decades of being locally extinct, platypuses were released back into the wild in New South Wales, Australia, on Sunday. So far, five females have been released in Royal National Park and will be ...

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 ...