But in recent years, scientists and dog behaviorists have leveraged dogs’ superior sniffers for good: Protecting endangered ...

The wonders of platypus milk Platypus milk SEEMS as extraordinary as the animal itself. In just a few months, it transforms the highly underdeveloped baby platypus – jelly bean sized, furless, ...

Platypus released in Australian national park for the first time in 50 years Link Copied! The platypus has been reintroduced into Australia's oldest national park for the first time in half a century.

Platypus need protection at a national, state, and local scale, according to the researchers. "At a national scale we need monitoring and data to know whether what we are doing is beneficial or ...

The platypus, a species unique to Australia, was reintroduced into the country’s oldest national park just south of Sydney on Friday in a landmark conservation project after disappearing from ...

The country also has a humanitarian programme, which granted 13,000-14,000 resettlement visas a year to refugees and asylum-seekers between 2005 and 2009. The refugee visas are given to applicants ...

Everyone knows that the duck-billed platypus is pretty strange. But it seems this mammal's eccentricities extend beyond its famous bill, and habit of laying eggs, to the way its genes determine ...