Last week, I showed someone a purseweb spider’s home, the lair of a monster. The web resembles a gray, footlong dead twig an inch in diameter leaning against the base of an oak tree. Easy to overlook.

Last week I showed someone a purseweb spider’s home, the lair of a monster. The web resembles a gray, footlong dead twig an inch in diameter leaning against the base of an oak tree. Easy to overlook.

Based on a single tooth from Australia, scientists believe they have discovered a giant, meter-long (3.3 feet) duck-billed platypus that likely fed on fish, frogs, and even turtles, according to a new ...

One of the most unusual mounted specimens in the Bruce Museum science collection is the duck-billed platypus, a native of eastern Australia including Tasmania. The country down under is home to many ...

The first analysis of the genome sequence of the duck-billed platypus was published today by an international team of scientists, revealing clues about how genomes were organized during the early ...

“When I first saw it, I just said ‘What?!’ and didn’t speak for a while,” said one of the researchers who studied the fossils of a prehistoric marine reptile. By Nicholas St. Fleur No mammal may be ...

Newly discovered fossils from China show a swimming reptile with a small head, tiny eyes and a bill similar to a modern duck-billed platypus. Like the platypus, Eretmorhipis carrolldongi probably used ...

May 8 -- WEDNESDAY, May 7 (HealthDay News) -- An international team of scientists has published the first analysis of the genome sequence of the duck-billed platypus, one of the few mammals that lays ...

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