The skeleton looks like a duck-billed platypus, and the creature probably walked like a duck-billed platypus, but it isn't necessarily a duck-billed platypus. It might be a newly discovered ...

Platypuses are one of only five species of extant monotremes—just them and four species of echidna—which split from the rest of the mammals 166 million years ago. These egg-laying mammals get their ...

Male platypuses have venomous spurs on the heels of their hind feet. The spurs release a venom that causes intense pain ...