Chambers Wildlife Rainforest Lodges Tropical North Queensland, Australia. [ Site Map ] [ Rainforest Search Engine ] [ Home ] [ Up ] [ Next ] Platypus Photo: Courtesy of Jonathan Munro Wild Watch Australia guiding service Platypus: Ormithorhynchus anatinus The platypus is considered to be one of the world's most unusual animals. It is often described as a living fossil - a furry, warm-blooded, egg-laying mammal which retains some features of reptiles. (Australian Platypus Con ...

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Creationism and the Platypus by Jim Foley Copyright © 1997-2003 [Last Update: February 18, 1997] "Oh really," said Picard, not buying it for a second. "And just where, in all aspects of creation, can your hand be seen?" Q smiled toothily. "Why Picard ... who do you think came up with the duck-billed platypus?" Other Links: The Platypus This Creation Magazine article argues that the platypus is inexplicable in evolutionary terms. The Natural History of Marsupials Chris Ne ...

Advanced Search Home | About Us | Feedback | Help | Site Map Home > Natural Environment > Plants and Animals of Tasmania > Wildlife and Game > Mammals > Echidnas and Platypus > Platypus Platypus ***Please update your bookmarks and links with our new web address: www.dpiw.tas.gov.au The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), with its duck bill and webbed feet, is a unique Australian animal. It and the two species of echidna are the only monotremes or egg-laying mammals to ...

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My animal is the platypus. It lives in fresh water swamps and rivers. It eats yabbies, worms, insects, fish eggs, and water plants. It has webbed feet, leathery skin, and waterproof fur. I think this animal is a good choice for the zoo because it is endangered and its food is easy to get. The platypus can stay under water for 10 minutes. By Mary Verzi Close this page to return to the Australian Animals Page

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THE DUCK - BILLED PLATYPUS PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION The platypus is one of the two animals in the order Monotremata. It is the only member of the mammal family Ornithorhynchidae. Platypus is from the Greek platys meaning broad and pous meaning foot, referring to the animal's webbed foot. The platypus has several reptilian characteristics which include using the same opening for reproduction and eliminating waste products, the ability to lay eggs, cervical ri ...

Platypus by Rod Scott © Australian Geographic Journal Number 12, Oct-Nov 1988 Image used with kind permission. Kookaburra calls kind permission: Australian National Botanic Gardens. SPECIAL FEATURE: Article on the Platypus from the Penny Magazine, England, 1835. (Lo-res version) platypus [mod.L. (Shaw 1799), Gr. platypous flat-footed platys flat + pous foot. Originally the generic name, but, having already been given to a genus of beetles, it was in 1800 chan ...

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Fact sheets Back to Explore Back to Fact Sheets Platypus - Evolution and Conservation Points covered: A modern Platypus. Photo: Carl Bento, Australian Museum Skull of Obdurodon (left) compared with modern Platypus (right) The holes in the upper jaw of Obdurodon are alveoli for true teeth - note the horny pads on the modern Platypus instead of teeth. Photo: Carl Bento, Australian Museum Opalised jaw fragment of an extinct monotreme, Steropodon galmani, showing teeth. Photo ...

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The Platypus Of Casino The platypus is rarely seen swimming in the Richmond River that passes through Casino, but when it is, it is beautiful sight, with the adult male being 50 to 60 centimetres long and the adult female being 40 to 50 centimetres long. The platypus has a flattened body covered with dense, short, fine hairs. Usually the hairs are dark brown on the back and much paler on the belly. There is practically no neck. The tail is broad and flat. It is covered with coarse ...

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Science Frontiers ONLINE No. 75: May-Jun 1991 Issue Contents Other pages Home Page Science Frontiers Online All Issues This Issue Sourcebook Project Sourcebook Subjects Platypus Paradoxes After elucidating echidna eccentricities in the preceding item, we now provide platypus paradoxes. Did you know that the platypus bill is a finely tuned instrument with approximately 850,000 electrical and tactile rec ...

PLATYPUSES The eyes, ears and nostrils of the platypus shut completely when the animal is under water. The platypus is an Australian mammal that lays eggs. Only one of two mammals that lay eggs. Although the platypus is blind and deaf in the water, its soft rubbery bill is so sensitive it has no difficulty in finding small creatures to eat. The duck-billed platypus is just one of a number of very unusual animals found in only Australia and New Zealand. These land masses were cut off millions of years ago, when the continents drifted apart. The animals there evolved in isolation from those elsewhere. Platypus means "flat footed" Back to Contents Page

THE ANIMAL THAT WASN’T SUPPOSED TO EXIST! BERT THOMPSON If someone told you that they had seen an animal that lays eggs like a turtle, feeds its young on milk like a mammal, has a bill like a duck, a tail like a beaver, hair like a bear, webbed feet like an otter, claws like reptile, poison like a snake, and spurs like a rooster, what would you think? Your first thought likely would be that no such animal exists—right? That’s what scientists thought when they first came a ...

The Duckbill Platypus God made all the animals including the duckbill platypus. The platypus is a small furry little animal that loves the water (it's aquatic). The platypus lives near fresh water where it finds its food and makes its home. The platypus is a very unusual mammal (mammal means that it has fur on it): It lays eggs like a bird or a reptile (this makes it a monotreme mammal) The males have poison like a snake in spurs on their hind legs. The poison can kill a dog and cau ...

Thermal Biology of the Platypus Body Temperature The platypus maintains a body temperature of 31-32°C (Bethge, 1997). This is lower than the eutherian norm of about 38°C, and was previously thought to represent "imperfect" evolution of homeothermy (Anderson and Jones 1967). It is now known that the platypus is a competent homeotherm and can maintain a relatively constant body temperature in ambient air temperatures ranging from 0.5 to 25°C (Bethge, 1997). The thermal neutral zone of ...

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