DUCK-billed, beaver-tailed, web-footed, egg-laying and venomous, the platypus is one of Mother Nature’s weird and wondrous enigmas.
Scientists used to scoff at the notion that the platypus was a real animal at all. In fact, those who had the privilege of examining a preserved platypus in the 1700s assumed it was a ‘chimaera’ made by a prankster sewing random animal parts together.
