The platypus has long fascinated scientists, with its weirdly unique assortment of features making it one of the most unusual animals on the planet. Now a team of Australian researchers has found that ...

Platypus milk is the unlikely source of a protein that could help fight off infections, according to a group of scientists in Australia. The growing use of antibiotics over the past century has led to ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

According to researchers, milk obtained from the duck-billed platypus could soon be used to fight antibiotic resistance. The new study report was published in the journal Structural Biology ...

Biologists in Australia discovered why platypus milk is able to fight against antibiotic-resistant superbugs. It is not recent news that platypus milk has properties that could be used to fight ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...