{"id":38294,"date":"2025-12-23T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/pink-platypus-spotted-in-gippsland-is-cute-but-dont-get-too-excited\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T00:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:00:10","slug":"pink-platypus-spotted-in-gippsland-is-cute-but-dont-get-too-excited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/pink-platypus-spotted-in-gippsland-is-cute-but-dont-get-too-excited\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink platypus spotted in Gippsland is cute \u2013 but don\u2019t get too excited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biologist says monotreme a Victorian fisher has nicknamed Pinky is \u2018unusual but not exceptional\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2025\/dec\/23\/bondi-terror-attacks-response-nsw-law-changes-gun-law-reform-protest-restrictions-chris-minns-anthony-albanese-labr-sussan-ley-coalition-ntwnfb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cody Stylianou thought he saw a huge trout. But, skimming just below the surface, it was moving differently than a fish would.<\/p>\n<p>The creature surfaced and, amazed, the Victorian fisher reached for his phone. Swimming in front of him was a pink platypus.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/dec\/23\/pink-platypus-spotted-in-gippsland-victoria\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biologist says monotreme a Victorian fisher has nicknamed Pinky is \u2018unusual but not exceptional\u2019 Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Cody Stylianou thought he saw a huge trout. But, skimming just below the surface, it was moving differently than a fish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 18:24:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}