Recent explorations by a team of Australian researchers into the contents of its venom have revealed another stunning trait of the already wonderful platypus: the critter contains an enhanced version ...

The platypus is one of the most unusual mammals on Earth, combining egg-laying reproduction, venomous spurs and an ...

The platypus is one of the most unusual mammals known to science, combining traits typically associated with birds, reptiles and aquatic animals. Among its distinctive features is a venom system found ...

The platypus is found only in Australia, where it spends most of its life swimming in freshwater ponds and streams. Its incredibly sensitive bird-like bill contains thousands of electroreceptors.

The platypus produces a powerful venom during breeding season, which is used in competition among males for females. "We've discovered conflicting functions of GLP-1 in the platypus: in the gut as a ...

Covered in fur and nursing their young with milk... the definition of a "mammal" that we think of in our daily lives is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close-up of a platypus swimming in the water. The woman was spurred as she tried to pick up a platypus on the roadside. (Image ...

When the British naturalist George Shaw received a weird specimen from Australia in 1799 -- one with a mole's fur, a duck's bill and serpentlike spurs on its rear legs -- he did what any skeptical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Platypuses are monotremes, one of the oldest branches of mammals, and they reproduce by laying eggs instead of giving birth to ...

Being semi-aquatic, however, the platypus has evolved some olfactory receptor genes, in the V1R family, that seem to endow it with the ability to sense water-soluble, non-volatile chemicals as is ...