Exploring Maleny and surrounds is one of the things to do on the Sunshine Coast most people will love, with many surprises to ...

Australia's oceans, deserts and rainforests are home to some truly weird and wonderful species – here are 13 of the strangest ...

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 ...

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Australia’s iconic platypus is under threat as climate change hits the country hard. Intense heat and longer droughts are parching waterways that platypuses live in; wildfires are more frequent and ...

An artist’s impression of the toothed platypus that swam with dolphins 25 million years ago – credit, Gen Conway, Flinders University via SWNS Everyone knows that the platypus is the world’s strangest ...

The platypus is already a bizarre mishmash of features, an egg-laying, duck-billed, venomous, and semi-aquatic mammal. But 25 million years ago, an even stranger prehistoric platypus swam through ...

"But as the new fossils show, another mammal swam with the dolphins. "An ancient, toothed platypus lived in these lakes and rivers as shown by the bones of one that settled to the floor of the lake 25 ...

Platypuses swam with dolphins 25 million years ago, reveals an "exciting" new platypus fossil find. Paleontologists made the rare discovery east of the Flinders Ranges in remote outback South ...

Australia’s platypus, one of the world’s most enigmatic animals, had an exotic origin story, according to an exciting discovery by Flinders University palaeontologists. They have described rare ...