Here are some incredible facts about the platypus! 1. Platypuses Are Mammals that Lay Eggs Our first incredible ...

The big problem is food. Platypuses eat half their weight daily, and they demand live food. So every day Fleay dispenses 2,000 earthworms. 200 meal grubs, 30 crayfish, chafer grubs and crickets.

But what about platypuses? Surely the weirdness of the animal stops with their duck-billed, beaver-tailed, duck-footed, somehow-still-mammalian form? Oh, I wish, friend. Because I just learned how ...

Platypuses are semiaquatic egg-laying mammals ... Carnivorous caterpillars discovered on the Hawaiian island of Oahu don’t just eat other insects — they decorate themselves in the mishmash ...

rivers or ponds and survive by eating shrimp, swimming beetles, water bugs and tadpoles. Police in Australia have urgently appealed to the public to help find a man who allegedly took a platypus ...

It should provide the founding group of ten platypuses with plenty to eat—researchers found a healthy population of caddis fly larvae, shrimp, dragonfly nymphs and other macroinvertebrates.