Imagine a creature that looks like a mashup from a child’s wildest dreams: a furry animal with the bill of a duck, the tail ...

Imagine an animal so baffling that the world’s best scientists once thought it was a hoax. A beast with the bill of a duck, ...

Native to eastern Australia, the platypus lays eggs, which the mother keeps warm for about 10 days until they hatch. The babies are tiny and completely helpless, depending on their mother’s milk ...