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  2. Platypus - Wikipedia

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    Much of the world was introduced to the platypus in 1939 when National Geographic Magazine published an article on the platypus and the efforts to study and raise it in captivity. The latter is a difficult task, and only a few young have been successfully raised since, notably at Healesville Sanctuary in Victoria .

  3. Check Out the Venomous Defense Mechanism of the Male Platypus

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    The platypus is found only in Australia, where it spends most of its life swimming in freshwater ponds and streams. Its incredibly sensitive bird-like bill contains thousands of electroreceptors .

  4. Australia platypus conservation centre, world's largest ... - AOL

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    The world's largest platypus conservation centre has welcomed its first residents as part of a project to protect the semi-aquatic mammal found only in Australia amid threats to its habitat from ...

  5. Ornithorhynchidae - Wikipedia

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    This contrasts with the modern platypus, where adults are entirely toothless. It has been theorized that the loss of teeth in the platypus was a geologically recent event, occurring only in the Pleistocene (after over 95 million years of tooth presence in the ornithorhynchid lineage) after the migration of the rakali ( Hydromys chrysogaster ...

  6. Echidna - Wikipedia

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    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 years ago represent basal forms, rather than close relatives of the modern platypus. [4]

  7. Platypus apicalis - Wikipedia

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    Scientists have tested strains of B. bassiana, B. brongniartii and Metarhizium anisopliae which are found in southern beech forests or in places where no Platypus are found. [5] They were tested on both the adult and larvae stages of the insect, a total of 10 isolates where tested and scientists found that all killed the adult stage of the ...

  8. Understanding the Sixth Sense of the Platypus - AOL

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    Despite their awkward appearance, the platypus has a superpower-like sixth sense that it uses to hunt They are such an unusual mammal that the first scientists to study them believed they were the ...

  9. Obdurodon - Wikipedia

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    The second species named, Obdurodon dicksoni, occasionally called the Riversleigh Platypus, [6] was described by Archer et al who detailed a skull and several teeth found in lower-middle Miocene deposits from the Riversleigh Ringtail Site. The type specimen, an exceptionally well preserved skull, is one of the most intact fossil skulls to be ...