Discover more about the egg-laying monotremes of Oceania and the ancient traits they still carry.

The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...

The platypus is one of the most mysterious members of the animal world. Even in the 21st century, there is still so much we don’t know about them. This “odd duck” was once so mysterious that it was ...