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to reduce buoyancy. Adult platypuses lack teeth and instead have heavily keratinised food-grinding pads. Young platypuses have one premolar tooth and

Look up platypus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Platypus is the English common name of the Australian egg-laying mammal with the scientific name

three platypuses to the Bronx Zoo, where they became the only platypuses living in captivity outside of Australia at the time. The platypuses were named

because he thought "it looked cool", though it was discovered in 2020 that platypuses coincidentally glow a very similar color when under ultraviolet light

thigh, and delivered through a spur, or calcar, on each hind limb. Female platypuses, in common with echidnas, have rudimentary spur buds that do not develop

Ornithorhynchus anatinus (platypus) – oldest specimen 10,000 years old Genus †Obdurodon – includes a number of Miocene (24–5 Ma) Riversleigh platypuses Species †Obdurodon

Archer (2016). "Comparative cranial morphology in living and extinct platypuses: Feeding behavior, electroreception, and loss of teeth". Science Advances

Molecular clock data suggest echidnas split from platypuses between 19 and 48 million years ago, so that platypus-like fossils dating back to over 112.5 million

well as code developed by Apple. Darwin's unofficial mascot is Hexley the Platypus. Darwin is mostly POSIX-compatible, but has never, by itself, been certified

Operation Platypus was an operation by Allied special reconnaissance personnel from Z Special Unit ("Z Force") during the Borneo Campaign of World War