For the first time ever, a duck-billed platypus was born in captivity ... long), soft-shelled eggs. The Healesville platypus was born after Curator David Fleay, as an experiment, gave Jill ...

Surely the weirdness of the animal stops with their duck-billed, beaver-tailed ... (you know what I’m gonna say). Platypuses usually only lay two eggs at a time, so it’s not like there ...

The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) has a puzzling array of features. Not only does it have that iconic duck bill, it lays eggs like a bird or reptile but feeds milk to its young like a mammal.