| Unlike platypuses, echidnas lack webbing and instead have large, shovel-like claws are present on all feet. |
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| Male platypuses have a spur on the inner side of each ankle that is connected to a venom gland located over the thighs. |
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| The only living monotremes are the platypuses and the echidnas. |
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| They are protected in a temporary pouch in echidnas but not platypuses. |
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| The sedge land and moorlands are distinctive for wombats, and the coastal heaths for green rosellas, platypuses, and short-nosed echidnas. |
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| Authors might conjure up androids that dream of electric sheep, but can we now say for sure that platypuses dream of juicy crayfish? |
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| Victoria's Healesville Sanctuary is celebrating the births of two baby platypuses, in a major milestone. |
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| Follow the Platypus Waterholes Walk to Rocky River, where in spring Cape Barren geese incubate their eggs in native iris grasses and platypuses nest in a burrow up to 20 metres long. |
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| With so many platypuses turning up at once one wonders what the collective noun for a group of platypus is? |
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| The best of this summer's blockbuster comparisons of humans, mice, dogs, opossums, and green anole lizards with platypuses. |
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| Female platypuses have two copies of each of the five X chromosomes. |
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| Platypuses are not known to hibernate, although it is possible they may do so for short periods in the colder parts of their range. |
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| Platypuses can be found along Australia's eastern coastal areas in small streams and quiet rivers. |
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| Platypuses are small, dark-brown, furry, egg-laying mammals with webbed paws and a duck-like beak. |
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| Platypuses live in burrows which they dig into the banks of rivers. |
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| Wunderbar is aiming to skill up the young Platypuses so that in future they could take over the company. |
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