Abandon any notion that the duck-billed platypus is a soft and cuddly creature -- maybe like Perry the Platypus in the Phineas and Ferb cartoon. The males can deliver a mega-sting that causes ...

For one, duck-billed platypus venom (yes, they have venom) may have potential as a Type 2 diabetes treatment.

The platypus is an odd duck of the animal world: an egg-laying, duck-billed, beaver-tailed mammal that baffled European naturalists when they first discovered it. One of its more puzzling features ...

Former President Donald Trump potentially becoming House speaker, an idea floated by some conservatives, would be the "duck-billed platypus" of politics.

Abandon any notion that the duck-billed platypus is a soft and cuddly creature -- maybe like Perry the Platypus in the Phineas and Ferb cartoon. The males can deliver a mega-sting that causes ...

Stopping up rivers where platypuses reside is restricting the odd animals’ migration patterns and causing inbreeding, scientists say. By Nicholas Bakalar The duck-billed platypus faces many ...

Scientists have sequenced the duck-billed platypus' genome. And it's as messed up as the animal itself.quote:The platypus is classed as a mammal because it has fur and feeds its young with milk ...

An egg-laying, duck-billed, venom-spined, furry-coated underwater mammal, the platypus’ natural environment is in danger from urban development in the capital city of Hobart.

The genome of the platypus—our most distant mammal relative—has been decoded and analyzed, researchers reported today. The duck-billed mammal has a genetic affinity with both reptiles and ...

Abandon any notion that the duck-billed platypus is a soft and cuddly creature ― maybe like Perry the Platypus in the Phineas and Ferb cartoon. This platypus, renowned as one of the few mammals that ...