Researcher shares images of an ultra-rare platypus – possibly the first ever documented – observed in the Northern Tablelands
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Researchers hunting for an endangered turtle have discovered something even rarer – a white platypus frolicking in a New South Wales stream.
Photos and footage of the extraordinary creature have been published in a scientific journal after several encounters over the past two years or so.
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