duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)

Query: mammals of australia

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Subject:	duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)
Poster:	Wiki Photos (---@---.---)

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Duck Billed Platypus Schnabeltier
Date 1916 (probably)
Source The Wonderful Paleo Art of Heinrich Harder
Author Heinrich Harder (1858-1935)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duck_billed_platypus_schnabeltier.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.

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