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A semi-aquatic, egg-laying monotreme mammal with a bill resembling that of a duck, that has a mole-like body, a tail resembling that of a beaver, a waterproof pelt, and flat webbed feet — males have poisonous spurs on the inside of the back legs; Ornithorhynchus anatinus

The platypus is aquatic in its habits, passing most of its time in the water or close to the margin of lakes and streams, swimming and diving with the greatest ease, and forming for the purpose of sleeping and breeding deep burrows in the banks, which generally have two orifices, one just above the water level, concealed among long grass and leaves, and the other below the surface.

Adult monotremes are in like case, although the duckbilled platypus (Ornithorhynchus) has teeth when young on the sides of the jaws.

The anatomical differences by which the platypus, and its only allies the echidnas, are separated from all other mammals, so as to form a distinct sub-class, are described in the article Monotremata, where also will be found the main distinctive characters of the two existing representatives of the group. It is there stated that the early stages of the development of the young are not yet fully known.

The platypus is pretty generally distributed in situations suitable to its aquatic habits throughout the island of Tasmania and the southern and eastern portions of Australia.

Australia and Tasmania possess two animals of this order - the echidna, or spiny ant-eater (hairy in Tasmania), and the Platypus anatinus, the duckbilled water mole, otherwise named the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus.

Don't let him go running amuck, Bill Just, mind me platypus duck.

He made flying fish and the duck billed platypus!

Allen From the Intimate Creation Collection you have the platypus, a sextoy with women in mind.

I'd rather marry a duck-billed platypus Than end up like old Oedipus Rex.

The highlight of this area is the chance to see the unusual and shy platypus swimming effortlessly in the clear creeks.

A number of animals started out as cryptids, including the okapi and the platypus.

Caldwell showed that it was filled with yolk, and finally established the fact that Platypus as well as Echidna is oviparous.

The tail is short, broad and depressed, and covered with coarse hairs, which in old animals generally become worn off from the under (From Gould's Mammals of Australia.) Platypus.

The Marsupials include the Macro pus or kangaroo; the opossums, Phalangista vulpina and P. Cookii; the opossum-mouse, Dromicia nana; Perameles or bandicoot; Hypsiprymnus or kangaroo rat; Phascolomys or wombat; while of Monotremata there are the Echidna or porcupine ant-eater and the duck-billed platypus.

Prior to 1st April 1993, employe stress in a Further Education College in Scotland was about as rare as a duckbill platypus.

If you're looking for something a little more unusual, try a platypus, swan, or penguin.

This year, Wallace Walrus, Plato Platypus and Crocket Crocodile are sure to make a splash with shoppers.

Beyond the size and material differences, a Patti the Platypus Beanie Baby is indistinguishable from a Patti the Platypus Beanie Buddy.