The iconically-strange platypus of Australia is coming home to a national park near Sydney 50 years after their mysterious disappearance. Whether from a chemical tanker spill on the nearby Princes Highway or over-predation from foxes or cats, conservationists aren’t quite sure when and why the strange egg-laying aquatic mammal vanished from Royal National Park’s rivers, […]

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