The milk of the platypus may contain a protein that can fight drug-resistant bacteria. Now, a new analysis of that protein reveals that its shape is as bizarre as the shape of the animal that excreted ...
Native to the rivers and freshwater creeks of eastern Australia, its venom is the lesser-known feature that sets the platypus ...
Modern medicine has done a great job at creating antibiotics to fight infection — in fact, it might be doing too good of a job. As antibiotic use has spiked over the past century or so, the potential ...
The platypus is, frankly, a weirdo. It's one of the last surviving species of egg-laying mammals. It has venomous flippers. And that furry body combined with the duck bill? Looks like it belongs on ...
The platypus is about as bizarre and contradictory as animals come. The semi-aquatic Australian creatures are mammals, but they lay eggs instead of giving live birth. They have bills like ducks, but ...
Katherine Hignett is a reporter based in London. She currently covers current affairs, health and science. Prior to joining Newsweek in 2017, she edited a medicine industry newspaper and its ...
The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), sometimes called the duck-billed platypus is native to Eastern Australia and Tasmania. It is the sole-surviving member of its family (Ornithorhynchidae) and ...
Platypuses are, plainly put, oddly shaped — those flat bills, beaver-like tails and venomous spurs. Now it seems an unusual ringlet-like protein in their milk could help in the fight against superbugs ...
WASHINGTON — When the British naturalist George Shaw received a weird specimen from Australia in 1799 — one with a mole’s fur, a duck’s bill and spurs on its rear legs — he did what any skeptical ...
The platypus is about as bizarre and contradictory as animals come. The semi-aquatic Australian creatures are mammals, but they lay eggs instead of giving live birth. They have bills like ducks, but ...
Modern medicine has done a great job at creating antibiotics to fight infection — in fact, it might be doing too good of a job. As antibiotic use has spiked over the past century or so, the potential ...
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