Scientists Asking for Your Help to Unpack Platypus Enigma

Scientists Asking for Your Help to Unpack Platypus Enigma
A platypus receives a health check at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, on June 9, 2021. Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images
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Australia is home to one of earth’s great peculiarities in the platypus but there’s only a broad estimate of how many of them are left.

Experts fear that without good data, the duck-billed, egg-laying, milk-producing yet nipple-less enigma could be silently sliding further towards peril.