All kinds of strange and unbelievable creatures exist only in fairy tales or legends. But if you look around the world today, it is easy to find living and breathing creatures who are just as strange and unbelievable!

Take a look at a “duck-billed platypus.” This warm-blooded mammal has soft brown fur like an otter, but a flat, broad bill like a duck. And even though a baby platypus drinks milk from its mother, it is hatched from a egg like a bird!

Follow this platypus through the murky Australian stream it calls home.