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 ...

For an animal that already looks assembled from spare parts, the platypus has added another twist to its history. Fossils from South Australia point to an ancient species, Obdurodon insignis, that ...

Researchers have discovered 25-million-year-old platypus fossils in outback South Australia, where they are believed to have lived with ancient lungfish, flamingos and freshwater dolphins. The animals ...

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Outliers among mammals, monotremes lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young. Only two types of monotremes, the platypus and echidna, still exist, but more monotreme species were around about 100 ...

Learn about the modern platypus' ancient ancestor, which swam in the same inland lakes as dolphins and had teeth tough enough to crack shells. The platypus perfectly embodies the weirdness of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Platypuses are monotremes, one of the oldest branches of mammals, and they reproduce by laying eggs instead of giving birth to ...