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duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)
Subject: duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)
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duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)


Duckbilled Platypus
Date
Source The mammals of Australia (1845-1863)
Author John Gould (1804–1881)   
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gould_John_Duckbilled_Platypus_1845-1863.png

The platypus or duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a semiaquatic egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. It is one of the extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth.

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