Native to the rivers and freshwater creeks of eastern Australia, its venom is the lesser-known feature that sets the platypus ...

82-Year-Old Mystery Of The Death Of Winston Churchill's Pet Platypus Solved. Students from the University of Sydney have solved the mystery of the premature death of Winston Churchill’s pet platypus.

The sequencing of the platypus genome has received a high amount of misleading press attention. What does this information really tell us about this strangely unique animal and its genetic past? The ...

The duck-billed platypus: part bird, part reptile, part mammal -- and the genome to prove it. Scientists have decoded the genome of the platypus, showing that the animal's peculiar mix of features is ...

Toxie, Planet Money's pet toxic asset, may not have been the savviest investment. But at least our exposure is capped at $1,000. That looks pretty good compared to Fannie and Freddie — the toxic twin ...