The platypus is about as bizarre and contradictory as animals come. The semi-aquatic Australian creatures are mammals, but they lay eggs instead of giving live birth. They have bills like ducks, but ...

Platypus milk is the unlikely source of a protein that could help fight off infections, according to a group of scientists in Australia. The growing use of antibiotics over the past century has led to ...

Platypuses are so weird scientists sliced them open because they thought they were fake. But why? Male platypus have ven ...