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  2. Understanding the Sixth Sense of the Platypus - AOL

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    The platypus uses its super-sensitive bill to find its dinner. A platypus bill may look like a duck’s bill, but it has a secret ability. ... While the echidna species has 400 to 2,000 ...

  3. Ornithorhynchoidea - Wikipedia

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    Ornithorhynchoidea is a superfamily of mammals containing the only living monotremes, the platypus and the echidnas, as well as their closest fossil relatives, to the exclusion of more primitive fossil monotremes of uncertain affinity.

  4. Echidna - Wikipedia

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    The male echidna's penis is 7 centimetres (2.8 in) long when erect, and its shaft is covered with penile spines. [29] These may be used to induce ovulation in the female. [30] It is a challenge to study the echidna in its natural habitat, and they show no interest in mating while in captivity. Prior to 2007, no one had ever seen an echidna ...

  5. Mammals of Australia - Wikipedia

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    When a platypus pelt was first presented by Joseph Banks to English naturalists in the late 18th century, they were convinced it must be a cleverly created hoax. Another strange monotreme is the short-beaked echidna; covered in hairy spikes, with a tubular snout in the place of a mouth, it has a tongue that can move in and out of the snout ...

  6. List of examples of convergent evolution - Wikipedia

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    Palm trees form are in unrelated plants: cycads (from the Jurassic period) and older tree ferns. [231] Flower petals came about independently in a number of different plant lineages. [232] Bilateral flowers, with distinct up-down orientation, came about independently in a number of different plants like: violets, orchids and peas. [233] [234]

  7. Platypus - Wikipedia

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    The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), 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 ...

  8. Eastern long-beaked echidna - Wikipedia

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    Like the closely related platypus, echidnas have spurs on their hind legs. Unlike the platypus, echidna spurs are not venomous. [5] All eastern long-beaked echidnas start with spurs on their hind feet and spur sheaths that cover them. Females typically lose their spurs later in life while males keep them. Females are also generally larger than ...

  9. List of organisms by chromosome count - Wikipedia

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    The list of organisms by chromosome count describes ploidy or numbers of chromosomes in the cells of various plants, animals, protists, and other living organisms.This number, along with the visual appearance of the chromosome, is known as the karyotype, [1] [2] [3] and can be found by looking at the chromosomes through a microscope.