Trending News: The platypus, a native of eastern Australia, is a puzzling creature with features from birds, mammals, and reptiles. Male platypuses possess a venomou ...

In the 1970s, an oil spill along the Princes Highway, Australia, wiped out the Hacking River's thriving platypus population. Researchers hoped the platypuses would return — they never did. Losing hope ...

Talented sniffer dogs Kip and Moss are taking to the water on paddleboards to sniff out platypuses in hard-to-reach habitats.