The platypus is such a strange animal that it was originally thought to be an elaborate hoax by pranksters When European ...

The Bering Strait marks the northern species boundary for blue king crabs (Paralithodes platypus), but the life history of the population at this latitude has never been described in scientific ...

The platypus has such a bizarre mix of features that the first samples sent back to Europe were examined for signs of fraud—biologists suspected a trickster had stitched together pieces of different ...

Via one of our favorite video blogs, The Kids Should See This, check out this incredible video of an echidna—also known as a spiny anteater—hatching from an egg. Echidnas live in Australia and on the ...