A team of scientists from Australia and the United Kingdom has finally elucidated the strange sex chromosome system of the duck-billed platypus. The first study, the findings of which are published ...

The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) has a puzzling array of features. Not only does it have that iconic duck bill, it lays eggs like a bird or reptile but feeds milk to its young like a mammal.

Thank you for praying for our family in the death of my wife’s brother this week. He is the first of seven sibs to pass away. While waiting in a ...

The platypus doesn’t fit into any particular category: it’s a mammal, but it lays eggs like a reptile. It has a duck-like ...

The duck-billed platypus is so absurd the British naturalist ... Males have venom-producing spurs on their hind legs that they use to fight each other. Mammals evolved more than 200 million ...