what is a duckbilled platypus.?

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Answer 1

Duck-billed Platypus with scientific name Ornithorhynchus anatinus is also called DUCK MOLE.

Its name PLATYPUS is derived from a word which means "flat-footed". It has a flat, streamlined body. This only egg-laying mammal is a semi- aquatic animal found in Australia.

General descriptions include: such animal is venomous, with black bill similar to ducks bill, beaver-tailed, has webbed feet, with a large rubbery snout, covered with dense brown fur,with legs on the sides of the body, have sense of electroreception. Such is an excellent swimmer.

Platypuses are CARNIVORES and are PREDATORS of freshwater shrimp, bivalve mollusks, frogs and fish eggs.They are PREDATED by hawks, eagles, frogs, dogs, cats, foxes,owls, pythons,crocodiles, etc.

For more details:
http://www.thebigzoo.com/Animals/Duck-Billed_Platypus.asp

Answer 2

Duckbilled platypuses are monotremes, a group of mammals represented only by the platypuses and echidnas today. We're fortunate to have two types of monotremes existing now, if they were extinct we would lose a lot of information about mammal evolution. Monotremes in many ways are the most primitive mammals. It is believed that the earliest mammals were like monotremes in laying eggs which were probably often carried in pouches (many fossil early mammals and later monotremes have paired bones in the pelvis that are present in many modern marsupials and may be useful in supporting the pouch), and that they fed their young with milk that oozed from ducts in the skin. From mammals like these marsupials evolved, which produce tiny live young that creep into the pouch and suckle on nipples there. Along another evolutionary branch the pouch was lost and the live young produced were more mature. Those are the placental mammals, which we belong to.

The platypuses are aquatic animals that use their bill (not really at all like a duck's bill!) to detect electrical impulses from underwater prey. They eat small crustaceans, worms, insects, and fish eggs. The males have a large spur on the hind legs that can be used to fight and is poisonous. Platypuses live in tunnel dens next to ponds and streams. They lay eggs and when the young hatch out feed them with milk that oozes from paired patches on the mother's abdomen (they have no nipples).

They have really fascinating sex chromosomes, but that's a whole other story!

Answer 3

The duckbilled platypus and spiny anteater are regarded as one of the most ancient mammals, monotremes, since it has characteristics of both reptiles and mammals...though it does not have a placenta, like most modern mammals, it lays eggs,and when hatched are nursed by the mother, at a very immature state, and they suck milk that secretes through the glands of the mother.

Answer 4

A mammal. With a duckbill.

Answer 5

Go to this link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus

Answer 6

Something that drives evolutionists crazy.