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It glows under UV light and delivers venom that science cannot neutralise. Meet the platypus, Australia’s strangest mammal, whose bite causes extreme pain and defies treatment.

Of all the weird animals that exist in the world, platypuses are up there with the weirdest, and last year scientists discovered something even more peculiar about their fur: it glows! What may be ...

A cutting-edge study of creeks and waterways near Brisbane has delivered a welcome surprise – there are more platypuses than expected. The environmental DNA study sampled water from 155 sites in ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The worst mass poisoning in British history took place in Cornwall in 1988, when 20 tonnes of aluminium ...