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The Platypus Is So Weird It Was Once Thought a Hoax
Imagine a creature that looks like a mashup from a child’s wildest dreams: a furry animal with the bill of a duck, the tail ...
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A Single Prehistoric Bone Might Rewrite the History of the World’s Strangest Mammals
Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...
A 108-Million-Year-Old Bone Just Rewrote Our Understanding of the World’s Strangest Mammal
New fossil evidence suggests echidnas evolved from a water-dwelling ancestor, not a land-based one. The bone structure ...
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108-million-year-old bone shatters beliefs, reveals echidna ancestors lived in water
A small bone found 30 years ago at Dinosaur Cove could revolutionize our understanding of echidnas and platypuses' evolution.
Echidna ancestors lived watery lifestyles like platypuses 100 million years ago – new study
A controversial idea suggests the ancestors of echidnas were more like the platypus. For the first time, fossil evidence ...
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In rare evolutionary event, weird platypus cousin evolved from living in water to living on land
Three species are found only in New Guinea and the fourth is found there and widely in Australia Previously, researchers thought echidnas and their semiaquatic relative, platypuses ...