“The platypus is the most touchy, temperamental, unpredictable animal,” says Australia’s David Fleay, and he should know. Called “the platypus man,” Fleay is the world’s leading authority on one of ...

Emily McColl-Gausden receives funding from San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, The University of Melbourne and the Ecological Society of Australia. Andrew Weeks is a Director at EnviroDNA, a company that ...

SAN DIEGO — San Diego Zoo Global was recently given two platypuses from the Taronga Zoo Sydney. These two animals are the first platypuses that are on display outside of Australia. The two will live ...

The platypus is one of the oddest animals you’ll ever see. Aboriginal Australian legend says that the platypus was born after a female duck mated with a water-rat. British naturalist George Shaw, who ...

After decades of being locally extinct, platypuses were released back into the wild in New South Wales, Australia, on Sunday. So far, five females have been released in Royal National Park and will be ...

San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance is partnering with an Australian zoo to study how climate change is affecting platypuses as a way to save the egg-laying mammal. The species is declining because of ...

SYDNEY, Australia – Platypuses are at risk of extinction due to Australia’s devastating droughts and other threats, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of New South Wales ...

The number of platypuses in the world has already decreased in half, research shows Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018. Her work ...