Researchers have designed a robotic “artificial skin” that is as unique as the team’s animal inspiration—the platypus.Created by collaborators between China’s Tsinghua University and the ...

Platypus exploiters walk free after claiming to be ‘ethical hackers’ While Mohammed M. and his brother were cleared of all criminal charges, 7.8 million euros worth of crypto tokens became ...

Police in Australia have urgently appealed to the public to help find a man who allegedly took a platypus from its natural environment on April 2, 2023, and onto a train in Queensland, Australia ...

A 26-year-old man has been charged with allegedly removing a platypus from its natural habitat in Morayfield, a town in Australia, Queensland Police said on Thursday following a hunt for the ...

In 1799, when British scientists first received a platypus specimen with its duck-like bill and ability to lay eggs, they suspected it was a hoax, describing it as “some deceptive preparation by ...

Throughout its lifetime, the platypus’s spurs had worn down to half their length, to 9.5 millimeters from 19, Mr. Williams said. The observation opened the possibility that scientists could use ...

The platypus may become sick, be diseased, or die the longer it is out of its natural environment. Police have been told the animal was released into the Caboolture River, away from where it was ...

The nickname 'platypus fish' stems from the fish's long beak, which resembles that of its mammal namesake, but the comparisons stop there. When paleontologist Gavin Young pulled several fossil ...

Item 1 of 5 A platypus is released by CEO of Taronga Zoo Cameron Kerr and Scientists back into Sydney's Royal National Park for the first time in over fifty years, in Sydney, Australia, May 12, 2023.

How the platypus got its name. George Shaw, keeper of the natural history collections at the British Museum (which were to later become the Natural History Museum), accepted the platypus as a real ...

A 26-year-old man has been charged with allegedly removing a platypus from its natural habitat in Morayfield, a town in Australia, Queensland Police said on Thursday following a hunt for the ...