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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

The platypus is a creature so bizarre that Charles Darwin was puzzled by it and biologists receiving specimens from it thought it was a joke

The platypus, sometimes referred to as the duck-billed platypus, is a semiaquatic, egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. The platypus is the sole living representative or monotypic taxon of its family (Ornithorhynchidae) and genus (Ornithorhynchus), though a number of related species appear in the fossil record.