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duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)
Duck-bill
Date 1896
Source http://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/6008906394
Author Richard Lydekker
Full title A hand-book to the marsupialia and monotremata / by Richard Lydekker.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_hand-book_to_the_marsupialia_and_monotremata_(Plate_XXXVII)_(6008906394).jpg
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. |