Australian authorities have charged a man after he allegedly stole a platypus from the wild and took it onto public transit. The unnamed 26-year-old man faces a fine of up to A$430,000 ($288,500) ...
To make things even stranger, grown males have a secret weapon on their back legs: a sharp spur that delivers venom powerful ...
"Most people, including Australians, don’t know about most mammals in Australia," says Jack Ashby, author of the new book Platypus Matters . Reading time 5 minutes Eighty-six years ago today, the last ...
Police in Australia launched a public appeal after a 26-year-old man, accompanied by a woman, was spotted on a suburban train with a wild platypus swaddled in a towel. The man, who faces court ...
They're at the world’s largest conservation center for the Australian duck-billed mammals. ::Dubbo, Australia There are streams, waterfalls, and banks of earth to burrow in, custom-built to simulate a ...
Cody Stylianou captured video of 'Pinky' feeding at a fishing spot in Gippsland ...
The Platypus Conservation Initiative, which includes UNSW's Centre for Ecosystem Science, Taronga Conservation Society Australia, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS), and WWF-Australia, ...
An Australian man was arrested after being seen with a stolen platypus, which Queensland Police are still searching for. The man took the platypus from its natural habitat on Tuesday and was seen ...
Police have arrested a man in connection to a platypus taken from its natural habitat on Tuesday morning. A hunt for a man and a woman, as well as the platypus, was sparked after the pair was ...
A 26-year-old man has been charged with allegedly removing a platypus from its natural habitat in Morayfield, a town in Australia, Queensland Police said on Thursday following a hunt for the suspect ...
The police had appealed for help after the platypus was spotted at a train station in Queensland. The animal was later released, but the authorities have been unable to find it. By Mike Ives A man in ...
In a remote river in Victoria's east, a fisherman says he has encountered an ultra-rare pink platypus, one of only a handful ever sighted in the past 200 years.