How To Use Platypus In A Sentence
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The platypus and the echidna - a nocturnal, burrowing mammal with a spiny coat, long claws, and no teeth - are the only known living members of a type of animal known as monotremes.
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The platypus is wailing, "No sleep 'til Burlington!" at the top of hisherits voice, and, soon, the neighbors will begin to complain.
Waking the Witch
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The platypus is considered a primitive mammal, yet its bill appears to be highly advanced.
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But what the newly sequenced genome reveals is that the platypus's male-determining gene, the monotreme equivalent of primates' SRY gene, is not located on any of those five pairs of sex chromosomes.
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Like the echidna, an adult platypus has no teeth.
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Two of the most amazing mammals on Earth are the naked mole-rat and the platypus.
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It is not an exaggeration to say the platypus is Australia's most curious creature.
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It is home to possums, pelicans, the duck-billed platypus, the kookaburra, kangaroos and wombats, to name just those he found for us during our adventure into paradise.
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The mascots at the Summer 2000 games in Sydney, Australia, were a platypus named Syd, an echidna called Millie, and a kookaburra called Olly.
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Perth Zoo is another fine place to see native wildlife, such as the platypus and echidna that were the inspiration for the Olympic mascots.
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The mascots at the Summer 2000 games in Sydney, Australia, were a platypus named Syd, an echidna called Millie, and a kookaburra called Olly.
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Scientists have determined that this electrical sensing equipment ends up wired to the part of the brain that processes visual information ... in other words, platypusses literally see with their honker (that is, "visual" images appear to them).
Science Question From a Toddler: What do blind people see? Boing Boing
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Anyway, the platypus is reminding me that I need to email my agent and my editor, and that I have a short story to write, and that the day is slipping away.
"There's someone in our dreams, in our preassembled dream..."
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These exotic egg-laying animals are represented by just three species: the duck-billed platypus and two echidnas.
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In the cartoon, the guys travel the world for encounters with creatures that are familiar (crocodiles, worms, a platypus and pigeons) and some not so familiar (a conehead katydid, a tiger quoll and the recently discovered colossal squid).
Family Winter Preview
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The fact that hibernators are as numerous and as varied as they are - the club includes some ground squirrels and rodents, at least one bird, various snakes and the echidna which is the platypus's closest living relative, among other species - suggests that the biological machinery that's needed for hibernation is both ancient and widespread in the animal kingdom.
Many species use hibernation to survive the rigors of winter
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Council member David A. Catania (I-At Large) calls the bifurcated system an unwieldy "duck-billed platypus.
A $34 million crisis of confidence in D.C. schools
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However, some Casino residents argue the removal of the weir is a threat to wildlife, especially to the platypuses living in the pool formed by the concrete barrier.
Northernstar.com.au: The Northern Star
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Unlike platypuses, echidnas lack webbing and instead have large, shovel-like claws are present on all feet.
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A fully fledged Marrano represents as much a taxonomicl challenge to the historian as the duck-billed platypus did to a Victorian naturalist.
Well i don't know if i'm wrong because she's only just gone
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The mammals the researchers studied were the platypus, echidna, opossum, wallaby, hedgehog, mouse, rat, rabbit, cow, pig, bat, tree shrew, colugo, ringtail lemur, and humans.
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The only other type of mammal to employ chemical warfare is the duck-billed platypus.
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The mammals the researchers studied were the platypus, echidna, opossum, wallaby, hedgehog, mouse, rat, rabbit, cow, pig, bat, tree shrew, colugo, ringtail lemur, and humans.
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From the looks of you, if the gin had taken on the platypus, the platypus would've lost.
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The platypus is considered a primitive mammal, yet its bill appears to be highly advanced.
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Of course I have a sense of humor. I gave you the platypus, didn't I?
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He picked up a platypus and whammo: dose of venom in the hand.
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There has to be more coffee before the work, and I think the platypus is still asleep.
Addendum: 16 SOUND START
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The only living monotremes are the platypuses and the echidnas.
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The platypus is considered a primitive mammal, yet its bill appears to be highly advanced.
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The platypus is telling me to giddy up, so I'd best giddy.
"It's the wrong time. She's pulling me through."
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An audio interview with David Mitchell is as rare as a duckbill platypus sighting.
Audio Interview with author David Mitchell, conducted by Nigel Beale.
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SnarkyPlatypus Not everything that's longer than it is wide is "entrails".
Stilgherrian
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Castorocauda has the ankle spurs characteristic of its nearest living relative, the platypus, which uses them for territorial defense.
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There are only three living monotremes, the duck-billed platypus and two species of echidna, or ‘spiny anteaters’, such as the one shown at right.
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Descriptions of the skull and non-vestigial dentition of a Miocene platypus (Obdurodon dicksoni n. sp.) from Riversleigh, Australia, and the problem of monotreme origins.
Australian Fossil Mammal Sites, Australia
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The egg-laying platypus and its cousin, the anteater, along with marsupials, make up the most primitive group of living mammals.
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The platypus and the echidna - a nocturnal, burrowing mammal with a spiny coat, long claws, and no teeth - are the only known living members of a type of animal known as monotremes.
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The only platypuses he came across were delivered to him by the Aboriginals and they decomposed in the heat before he could get them back to his dissecting bench aboard Challenger.
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But it has led scientists to believe that some animals with very different anatomies are related - for instance, the kangaroo and the platypus, and the hippo and whale.
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Male platypuses are venomous, courtesy of their crural glands.
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But it is the immediate predecessor of modern mammals, such as the platypus and the echidna.
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Perth Zoo is another fine place to see native wildlife, such as the platypus and echidna that were the inspiration for the Olympic mascots.
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(I hate being a newbie/outsider to insider-speak here ... but am I hoping in dirty-minded vain that 'petting the platypus' is actually a synonym for 'splitting the kitten'?)
"I pledge to you all that you wish, the moon and the stars."
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In addition to the solenodon, the only mammals that use venom today are the North American short-tailed shrew, the Eurasian water shrew, and the Australian duck-billed platypus.
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The egg-laying platypus of Australia is the world's most poisonous mammal.
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Animals that most people in the area had never seen-such as the squirrel-sized kangaroo known as a potoroo, the rabbit-eared bandicoot or bilby, and the platypus-were back and reproducing in the refuge.
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The bill of a platypus is soft, flexible, and leathery, unlike a bird's beak.
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(I hate being a newbie/outsider to insider-speak here ... but am I hoping in dirty-minded vain that 'petting the platypus' is actually a synonym for 'splitting the kitten'?)
"I pledge to you all that you wish, the moon and the stars."
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Evolutionists do not regard mosaic creatures such as the platypus as evidence of transformation of one basic kind of creature into another.
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This natural bushland setting teems with more than 200 native species, including koalas on branches, howling dingoes, weird platypuses, and groups of kangaroos, hopping around like giant rabbits with built-in baskets.
Lea Lane: Only Have a Week? A Deluxe Quickie to Oz
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And find out why the platypus is wearing a lampshade on hisitsher head.
Howard Hughes vs. Hunan Hubero and Szechuan Sméagol
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Mammals that use venom are rare - the duck-billed platypus, a few shrews and the odd solenodons of Cuba and Hispaniola.
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The mammals the researchers studied were the platypus, echidna, opossum, wallaby, hedgehog, mouse, rat, rabbit, cow, pig, bat, tree shrew, colugo, ringtail lemur, and humans.
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Male platypuses have a sharp spur attached to each ankle.
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Explain to the children that the tarantula and duckbill platypus began as ideas in the mind of God.
On the Sixth Day, God Created the Trumpet
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Do you think the platypus has a placenta, as a human mother would have when she is pregnant?
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The platypus uses its electro-sensitive bill to locate its food in the water.
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XD I'm thinking it's going to be platypusclub dot com, but platypus is sort of a hard word.
/ nothing compares to a quiet evening alone /
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The egg-laying platypus and its cousin, the anteater, along with marsupials, make up the most primitive group of living mammals.
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The duckbill platypus is a current member of the ancient monotreme group.
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In the cartoon, the guys travel the world for encounters with creatures that are familiar (crocodiles, worms, a platypus and pigeons) and some not so familiar (a conehead katydid, a tiger quoll and the recently discovered colossal squid).
Family Winter Preview
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The brown animal to the right of the platypus is a rhynchosaur.
Toys toys toys
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I had expected to find kangaroos, platypus and the various other marsupials.
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They include the extraordinary bill of the platypus, an egg-laying semiaquatic mammal from Australia.
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A self-supporting population may also give international zoos the opportunity to have a platypus.
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But it is the immediate predecessor of modern mammals, such as the platypus and the echidna.
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Blast, I fell victim to the platypus ... now my echidna is all chittering in the corner about bread on the table, crumbs in the pantry and freelance websites.
"You will choke, choke on the air you try to breathe..."
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The egg-laying platypus and its cousin, the anteater, along with marsupials, make up the most primitive group of living mammals.
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The first platypus specimen, only a skin, reached England in 1799 and it wasn’t until 1884 when it was definitely established that platypuses were oviparous, that is, they laid eggs like reptiles and birds, but unlike the majority of mammals.
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Like these higher mammals, the platypus and the echidna also have a jaw composed of a single bone, three inner-ear bones, relatively high metabolic rates, and hair.
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The mammals the researchers studied were the platypus, echidna, opossum, wallaby, hedgehog, mouse, rat, rabbit, cow, pig, bat, tree shrew, colugo, ringtail lemur, and humans.
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On page 23 the authors state, ‘The platypus has a bill like a duck and fur like a mammal, but has never been considered transitional.’
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A platypus feeds primarily on aquatic crustaceans, insect larvae, and some plants.
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It's getting late, and the platypus is giving me the hairy eyeball.
A Tyranny of Commas, Apostrophes, and Misspellings.
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They are protected in a temporary pouch in echidnas but not platypuses.
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And all these animals lived there-big glider possums, pygmy possums, koalas, kangaroos and wallabies, wombats, platypus, just everything in the trees, on the ground and in the creeks.
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There are a few primitive forms that secrete toxins—the platypus has poison spines, and an unusual insectivore on a few Caribbean islands, Solenodon, has grooved fangs and secretes a salivary toxin, and itty-bitty shrews have toxic saliva—but our class just hasn't had much natural talent for venom.
The Panda's Thumb: June 2005 Archives
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The mammals the researchers studied were the platypus, echidna, opossum, wallaby, hedgehog, mouse, rat, rabbit, cow, pig, bat, tree shrew, colugo, ringtail lemur, and humans.
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Only four mammals besides the platypus are poisonous (but not lethal to humans).
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The duck-billed platypus is a truly bizarre creature.
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Rather, the waitoreki might live in burrows like those which the platypus is known to construct in banks along streams and ponds and which, contrary to those of the yapok, open below water level.
