There's seems to be a whole bunch of lost critters floating into our Happy Aquarium tanks -- walruses and sea turtles. The new lost animal du jour is a baby platypus, a little orange guy with a purple ...

Studying the tiny animal, a 23-year-old found in a creek in Australia, offered hope for the threatened species and clues for how to help them survive. By John Yoon The platypus, a unique egg-laying ...

The platypus sports fur like a mammal, paddles its duck feet like a bird and lays eggs in the manner of a reptile. Nature's instruction manual for this oddball, it turns out, is just as much of a ...

With its furry body and duck-billed face, the platypus is nothing if not bizarre looking. But scientists have confirmed that its strangeness is more than skin deep — after unraveling the animal's ...

Is the platypus in evolutionary transition, or is it an anomaly in evolution? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better ...