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


An 1853 engraving of a platypus
Date 1853
Source The Illustrated Magazine of Art, 1853 (https://archive.org/stream/illustratedmagaz03jcasuoft#page/n101/mode/1up)
Author Unknown engraver
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duck-Billed_Platypus_1853.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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