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Platypus

Ornithorhynchus anatinus

  • 4 km/h (swimming)
  • 0.7-2.4 kg
  • 6-21 years
Freshwater Rivers & Lakes

The platypus is perhaps the most evolutionarily unusual mammal alive, combining features so bizarre that when the first specimen arrived in Britain in 1799, scientists…

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