At the new Healesville Sanctuary Platypusary, Cassandra Fahey has visualised a huge platypus egg in bright gold pipes. It has panels with leaf shapes inscribed, which cast shadows.

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Biologist David Fleay was the first to lay eyes upon a platypus bred in captivity at Healesville Sanctuary. At the time, little was known about platypus breeding and they were thought to emerge ...

A juvenile platypus has been returned to the wild after receiving expert care for 10 months at the Healesville Sanctuary, in Victoria.According to the sanctuary, the platypus was found by cyclists ...

HEALESVILLE Sanctuary is backing a call from platypus preservation groups for a blanket ban on opera net traps after senseless marsupial deaths.

For the first time ever, a duck-billed platypus was born in captivity. The baby platypus was born to a pair named Jack & Jill in the Healesville animal sanctuary near Melbourne, Australia. Its ...

There were other ways for people to catch yabbies that were platypus-friendly, Mr Frazer said. Healesville Sanctuary senior platypus keeper Jessica Thomas said the nets caused platypuses to ...