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 ...

In a remote river in Victoria's east, a fisherman says he has encountered an ultra-rare pink platypus, one of only a handful ...

Landholders living alongside a northern NSW creek say a government plan to demolish a weir to improve fish migration will be ...

Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this ...

A heartwarming rediscovery has been made on the world’s largest tropical island. Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna ...

Scientists at the University of Missouri have identified a small group of unusual objects in the early universe. Using NASA's ...

The natural world is full of animals that seem to defy logic, blurring the line between reality and imagination. Some look ...

Principal investigator Haojing Yan, for a small team of astronomers at the University of Missouri, compared the discovery to ...

WHEN you think of animals that glow in the dark, you might guess fireflies, jellyfish, or some other marine creature.

Debuting on Disney+ on January 16th is Agent P, Under C, a new series of shorts featuring Perry the Platypus giving the ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have identified a population of “platypus galaxies” that defy ...