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Jan. 6, 2021 —Australia's beaver-like, duck-billed platypus exhibits an array of bizarre characteristics: it lays eggs instead of giving birth to live babies, sweats milk, has venomous spurs and is even ...
Nov. 3, 2022 —A new genetic study finds large dams restrict platypus movement, with significant implications for their ...
Oct. 29, 2020 —The fur of the platypus - an Australian species threatened with extinction - glows green under ultraviolet light, a new study finds. This is the first observation of biofluorescence in an egg-laying ...
Jan. 7, 2021 —Three studies uncovered the unusual sex chromosomes of platypus, emu and Pekin duck. Platypus have five pairs of sex chromosomes forming an unusual chain shape, while the sex chromosomes of emu and ...
May 9, 2022 —Researchers have examined the mass extinction of large animals over the past tens of thousands of years and found that extinct species had, on average, much smaller brains than species that ...
May 12, 2022 —Jars of tiny platypus and echidna specimens, collected in the late 1800s by the scientist William Caldwell, have been discovered in the stores of Cambridge's University Museum of ...
Feb. 16, 2021 —Some of Australia's most famous animals - wombat, platypus, kangaroos and the extinct marsupial tiger thylacine - have been traced back to their fossil ancestors in remarkable finds in central ...
Feb. 3, 2021 —Investigators have published a global review of mammal strikes with aircraft, noting that events have been increasing by up to 68% annually. More mammals were struck during the landing phase of an ...
June 28, 2021 —An Australian mammal thought to have been wiped out over 150 years ago can now be crossed off our list of extinct animals, following a new ...
Aug. 28, 2022 —一项新的研究显示,虽然Bd可以显著reduce in captive frogs, captivity can have negative consequences for the frogs' protective skin microbiota, providing new insight into ...