A self-described ‘platypoditudinarian’, Burrell figured out how to keep these animals in captivity – which allowed them to be studied.
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New technology allows networks of rainwater tanks to work together to benefit households and the environment.
All species alive today, from chimpanzees to bacteria, are cousins that each have equally long lineages, rather than ancestors or descendants of one another.
The monotreme sex gene may have been found after decades of searching – and it’s not what anyone expected.
A controversial idea suggests the ancestors of echidnas were more like the platypus. For the first time, fossil evidence might support it.
Females have twice as many copies of some genes as males do – and exactly how different species manage this imbalance has puzzled scientists for decades.
Platypuses are drowning in Australian waterways, tangled in fishing line and trapped in closed nets meant for freshwater crayfish or yabbies. But we can fix this.
We sampled 118 rivers and creeks before and after the Black Summer bushfires, searching for platypus DNA. Here’s what we found.
Dams prevent platypus movements, which restricts the exchange of genes essential to maintaining healthy populations.
Parents’ DNA try to manipulate one another in a bid to shape junior in their mould.
From stingers to swans, Australia’s oceans are full of (potentially) deadly wildlife.
Four female koalas have just made their debut in front of an adoring public at Singapore Zoo – the latest in a long line of animals used for diplomatic purposes, going back to Winston the platypus.
Physiological, molecular and fossil evidence suggests that ancestors of both platypuses and echidnas were venomous. Male…
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