How To Use Platypus In A Sentence
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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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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 duckbill platypus is a current member of the ancient monotreme group.
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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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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 platypus uses its electro-sensitive bill to locate its food in the water.
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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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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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Male platypuses have a sharp spur attached to each ankle.
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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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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 brown animal to the right of the platypus is a rhynchosaur.
Toys toys toys
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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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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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(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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The bill of a platypus is soft, flexible, and leathery, unlike a bird's beak.
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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 egg-laying platypus of Australia is the world's most poisonous mammal.
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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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(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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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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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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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.
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The duck-billed platypus is a truly bizarre creature.
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Only four mammals besides the platypus are poisonous (but not lethal to humans).
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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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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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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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They are protected in a temporary pouch in echidnas but not platypuses.
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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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A platypus feeds primarily on aquatic crustaceans, insect larvae, and some plants.
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But it is the immediate predecessor of modern mammals, such as the platypus and the echidna.
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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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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 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.
Archive 2006-06-01
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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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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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But it is the immediate predecessor of modern mammals, such as the platypus and the echidna.
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A self-supporting population may also give international zoos the opportunity to have a platypus.
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They include the extraordinary bill of the platypus, an egg-laying semiaquatic mammal from Australia.
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I had expected to find kangaroos, platypus and the various other marsupials.
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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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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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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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Unlike platypuses, echidnas lack webbing and instead have large, shovel-like claws are present on all feet.
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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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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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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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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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These exotic egg-laying animals are represented by just three species: the duck-billed platypus and two echidnas.
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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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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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The only other type of mammal to employ chemical warfare is the duck-billed platypus.
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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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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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It is not an exaggeration to say the platypus is Australia's most curious creature.
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Two of the most amazing mammals on Earth are the naked mole-rat and the platypus.
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Like the echidna, an adult platypus has no teeth.
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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.
Archive 2008-05-01
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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 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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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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Male platypuses are venomous, courtesy of their crural glands.
Archive 2006-09-01
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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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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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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 egg-laying platypus and its cousin, the anteater, along with marsupials, make up the most primitive group of living mammals.
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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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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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Castorocauda has the ankle spurs characteristic of its nearest living relative, the platypus, which uses them for territorial defense.
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SnarkyPlatypus Not everything that's longer than it is wide is "entrails".
Stilgherrian
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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 telling me to giddy up, so I'd best giddy.
"It's the wrong time. She's pulling me through."
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The platypus is considered a primitive mammal, yet its bill appears to be highly advanced.
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The only living monotremes are the platypuses and the echidnas.
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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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He picked up a platypus and whammo: dose of venom in the hand.
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Of course I have a sense of humor. I gave you the platypus, didn't I?
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The platypus is considered a primitive mammal, yet its bill appears to be highly advanced.
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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 mammals the researchers studied were the platypus, echidna, opossum, wallaby, hedgehog, mouse, rat, rabbit, cow, pig, bat, tree shrew, colugo, ringtail lemur, and humans.
