With their small furry bodies and extraordinarily unusual features, platypuses certainly have their own unique charm — but hidden beneath this playful-looking exterior is a formidable defensive system ...

The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by combining physical traits in a bizarre way. They're egg-laying mammals with ...

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 ...