The platypus already looks like an animal assembled from spare parts, with a duck-like bill, webbed feet, and a beaver-style tail. On top of that, adult males carry a hidden weapon on each hind leg: a ...

Australia is home to some truly unique and unexpected creatures, but few are quite as strange and fascinating as the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). The platypus doesn’t fit into any particular ...

To make things even stranger, grown males have a secret weapon on their back legs: a sharp spur that delivers venom powerful ...

It’s a semi-aquatic exotic with some remarkable traits! This week, we’re exploring the strange but true story of the platypus. * Platypuses use “electrolocation” while feeding, sending out impulses ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - From high altitudes to tropical rainforests, platypuses are native to Eastern Australia. When it was first scientifically described in 1799, it was laughed at and checked for ...