GBIF
0 georeferenced occurrence records of Ornithorhynchus anatinus, published by museums, state agencies and citizen-science platforms. Refreshed weekly — the species only generates about 2,000 new records a year.
GBIF species page →Two populations, one map
One is wild and counted by scientists.
One is ours, and counted by rescues.
Platypus sightings across eastern Australia, mapped beside dachshunds waiting for homes. Same interface, completely different machinery — one population we survey, one we breed.
0 verified platypus records
Zoom in to meet them individually
2026 Undated records stay visible
0 verified records after cleaning
0% in — most-surveyed state
— earliest record species described 1799
0% carry a date the rest are undated
Platypus records per year
This tracks how much people looked, not how many platypus there are. The climb after 2020 is citizen-science apps arriving, not a population boom.
Dachshunds looking for homes
Pulled daily from rescue organisations. Listings that disappear upstream are marked gone rather than left to rot — every card says how recently we confirmed it.
Company Wiener
Our Company Wiener
Every project needs a mascot. Ours is low to the ground, ludicrously long, and has never once contributed to the codebase.
#ShowUsYourWiener
Got one? Post yours with the tag — long dogs of all proportions welcome.
Where this comes from
RescueGroups.org
Adoptable dogs listed by rescue organisations, refreshed daily. Photos are served from the source and always link back to the original listing — they belong to the shelters, not to us.
Adoptable Pet Data API →What we throw away, and why
Occurrence data is messier than it looks. Every record below is real, published, and wrong — so the ingest job drops it and logs exactly what it dropped:
- Museum specimens carrying the museum's coordinates. An Ohio State specimen placed in Florida; an Akita Prefectural Museum specimen in Japan.
- Centroid georeferencing. Records whose only locality was "Australia" get stamped on the geographic centre of the continent — which is desert, where platypus cannot live.
- Placeholder dates. Two records dated 1599, two centuries before the species was described.
The current filter is a range heuristic, not a true land mask. It removes the desert cluster but wouldn't catch a point dropped just offshore. A proper fix is a point-in-polygon test against the IUCN range polygon.