Witness the story of Pete Walsh, a Tasmanian man who befriends a platypus he names Zoom. With the help of experts, Pete learns more about the platypus’s secret world in a mission to protect them from ...

When Geoff Williams found and tagged a one-year-old male platypus as part of a survey in November 2000, he probably didn’t anticipate ever seeing the animal again. But more than two decades later, in ...

The platypus, a beloved emblem of Australia and a symbol of the strangeness of evolution, is at risk of extinction. That’s according to a new study published in the February issue of Biological ...

You might know the platypus as Australia's iconic shy, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, egg-laying mammal. Unfortunately, the odd animal is also struggling to survive. This is why Australia ...

SYDNEY, May 14 (Reuters) - 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 ...

The San Diego Zoo is joining an international collaboration project to ensure the survival of one of nature's truly unique animals — the platypus. Scientists with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance ...