(Image: George Shaw and F.P. Nodder)When European...  ...art bird, part mammal, and had venomous spurs.The platypus was just made-up, like unicorns and dragons, righ...  ...er, but the beak of a duck.Shaw had met his first platypus , and did not for a moment believe it was possibly...  ...ia, many scientists con...

A very dry reading of a script accompanies an expl...  ...cks are delicious. But I was a bit surprised that platypuses don’t have stomachs. I had to look that up....

(Video Link)Yes, platypuses combine mammal features and bird features, but di...  ...ch also happens to share the distinction with the platypus of being the only two mammals who lay eggs). You...  ...up of birds and mammals, but also fish.So how do platypuses , echnidn...

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The platypus is what happens when you take a perfectly good co...

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How many humans does it take to pull a platypus from a sewer pipe? About 27 were there when the c...  ...ked away to a vet for a check-up. Sightings of platypus in Western Sydney are rare, said the NPWS area ma...  ...Education Service said there were no records of a platypus...