The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...

Astronomers spotted nine galaxies with characteristics that have never been seen as a collection before. It's possible this ...

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have identified a population of “platypus galaxies” that defy ...

Scientists at the University of Missouri have identified a small group of unusual objects in the early universe. Using NASA's ...

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"You think that these things should not exist together, but there it is right in front of you, and it’s undeniable," ...

In a remote river in Victoria's east, a fisherman says he has encountered an ultra-rare pink platypus, one of only a handful ...

The platypus is perhaps the most bizarre creature on the planet. It’s a venomous, egg-laying, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed mammal. Those things simply aren’t supposed to go together. In ...