Australia is home to some truly unique and unexpected creatures, but few are quite as strange and fascinating as the platypus ...

This diagram reflects a fairly conventional picture ... the details of the gene duplications reveal that platypus venom and snake venom are independently derived features. The production of ...

Watch the Museum's venom ... The platypus was initially a challenge to classify due to the number of specimens available in Europe that were either incomplete or preserved. This meant that certain ...