SHOUT 2021: The platypus, Australia's unsung icon

By Paige Williams, Woodmans Hill Secondary College
Updated September 23 2021 - 11:00am, first published 10:41am
What I learned about the platypus, Australia's unsung icon
What I learned about the platypus, Australia's unsung icon

Let's look at the Platypus

There is no denying the Platypus is the most famous example of evolution to date, with their first discovery by European settlers in the late 1700s being suspected as a hoax due to their incredibly odd, seemingly borrowed appearance - so odd that they thought a duck's bill had been sewn onto a beaver.

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