duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) Title: Birds & nature magazine (Birds and All Nature)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Charles C Marble; William Kerr Higley, 1860-1908
Subjects: Birds; Natural history; Natural history
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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.