Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Burnie, Tasmania, Australia: March 2019: Platypus sviming in the river.© Lukas_Vejrik ...

The strange platypus has unveiled another new quirk. Scientists in Belgium said that the structures inside its hair cells are hollow. Previously we only knew bird feathers to have this unique trait.

Platypuses are true oddballs. They look like a mish-mash of several animals, with duck-like bills, beaver-like tails and otter-like bodies. They’re egg-laying mammals, and they hunt by sensing their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You already know the platypus is strange. It's the animal that lays eggs, has a duck bill, shoots venom from its ankles, and glows ...

Just when the platypus seemed to have run out of surprises, its hair added one more. Researchers have found that tiny pigment structures inside platypus fur are hollow, a feature once thought to ...

If the platypus looks like a mixture of bird and mammal features, it's because it is. University of Sydney / Doug Gimesy Researchers recently published the most complete, detailed platypus genome ever ...

The platypus is so bizarre that it famously led early European scientists to suspect someone had stitched it together from spare parts. Rather than following one neat, predictable lineage, the ...