The Kratts encounter a mother platypus and her eggs on a kayaking expedition in Australia. While kayaking in Australia, Martin and Chris encounter one of the world's most unusual creatures, a platypus ...

Australia is home to some truly unique and unexpected creatures, but few are quite as strange and fascinating as the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). The platypus doesn’t fit into any particular ...

(via SciShow) Look, we all think platypuses are weird. Just one look at these beaver-tailed, egg-laying, duck-billed weirdos makes you wonder how we're even both mammals. But I have news for you - ...

Hidden in Australian rivers lives a creature that shouldn’t exist. The platypus lays eggs like a reptile, feeds its young like a mammal, and carries venom strong enough to cause intense pain. It hunts ...

We may have gotten the evolutionary origins of the echidna backward, as new research suggests its ancestors probably lived in the water, not on land.