If you’ve always thought echidnas and platypuses were distant cousins who went their separate ways on land and water, think again. A single fossilized arm bone, found in a remote corner of ...

The platypus is one of the strangest animals ever discovered. This bizarre mammal lays eggs, has a duck-like bill, and can detect tiny electric signals produced by its prey. When hunting underwater, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s impression depicts Kryoryctes at Dinosaur Cove in Australia. New research supports the hypothesis that Kryoryctes is a ...

The platypus and echidna, often regarded as some of the most peculiar animals on Earth, may be hiding a far more complex evolutionary story than scientists initially believed. Recent findings from a ...

It is venomous, can sense electricity and glows under UV light. Now researchers have uncovered something else remarkable ...

The combination of a beaver-like body and duck-like bill of the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is only the first of a ...

With a beaver’s tail, webbed feet, and a duck’s bill, platypuses are one of the world’s strangest-looking creatures. They are such an unusual mammal that the first scientists to study them believed ...

The duck-billed platypus: part bird, part reptile, part mammal -- and the genome to prove it. An international consortium of scientists, led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, ...

(CNN) — The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by a lone fossil specimen that scientists now say represents a long-extinct ...