Platypuses are true oddballs. They look like a mish-mash of several animals, with duck-like bills, beaver-like tails and otter-like bodies. They’re egg-laying mammals, and they hunt by sensing their ...

Dobson was comparing the pigment-filled packets, called melanosomes, inside the hair of several mammal species when her Ph.D. supervisor, Liliana D’Alba, noticed the platypus oddity. Typically, ...

You already know the platypus is strange. It's the animal that lays eggs, has a duck bill, shoots venom from its ankles, and glows under blacklight for reasons no one can explain. In fact, when ...