The platypus is rare among mammals, laying eggs rather than bearing live offspring. Even rarer is a 200-pound platypus egg that hatches into a helicopter as it careens off a 30-foot cliff into the ...

The platypus is such a strange animal that it was originally thought to be an elaborate hoax by pranksters When European ...

SINCE writing the notice of Mr. le Souef's book on Australian wild life in NATURE for October 24 (vol. lxxvi., P. 635), I have been making inquiries as to the existence in collections of any examples ...

If there was a poster animal for diversification, it would have to be the platypus. It looks like an otter that’s gone trick-or-treating as a duck. It’s a mashup that inspired Mark Anthony Libre to ...

The platypus sports fur like a mammal, paddles its duck feet like a bird and lays eggs in the manner of a reptile. Nature's instruction manual for this oddball, it turns out, is just as much of a ...

It’s a semi-aquatic exotic with some remarkable traits! This week, we’re exploring the strange but true story of the platypus. * Platypuses use “electrolocation” while feeding, sending out impulses ...

It is believed that monotremes (the class of platypus-like mammals) branched from other mammals early in evolution. Though the platypus and whale lay eggs, why are they considered mammals? A mammal, ...

For six years the earnest curators of New York’s Bronx Zoo have busied themselves with the delicate problem of platypus family life. Platypus reproduction is a baffling business, for platypuses are ...