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duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)
Subject: duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)
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Ornithorincus skeleton.png
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duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)


Sketch of platypus skeleton
Date 1902
Source Mammalia
Author Beddard, Frank E. (Frank Evers Beddard), 1858-1925
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ornithorincus_skeleton.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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