Platypuses do not have duck bills and beaver tails.
The bill of a platypus is quite different in size and functions to a duck's bill. The bill of a platypus is vital to its survival. The platypus uses its bill to find food. It closes its eyes when underwater, and uses its bill to detect movements. Equipped with electroreceptors, the sensitive bill can sense electrical impulses, even the tiniest of movements made by underwater crustaceans.
The bill is also used to shovel up the soil on the bottom of the river or creek in order to find the food. Once found, the platypus uses grinding plates in its bill, rather than teeth, to crush the food before eating it.
Platypuses also do not have beaver tails. Although both creatures have flat tails, there are some differences.
they have duck bills/beaks
platupuses have black duck bills,black webbed feet,brown water proof fur bodys like beavers,and beaver tails.
Platypuses are completely within their own category - a sub-group known as monotremes. Platypuses are definitely not a type of beaver. Beavers are placental mammals, while platypuses are monotremes, which are egg-laying mammals. Ducks are not even remotely related to platypuses, as they are birds.
"Duckbill" is not the correct term; nor are they extinct. Platypuses are not even classified as endangered in 2014.
Neither. A platypus is totally different from either - it lays eggs and has a bill that does not actually even resemble the bill of a duck, as it has completely different functions. The platypus is an egg-laying mammal, or monotreme, in the same family as e echidna. it is not related to the beaver, which is a placental mammal; nor is it related to the duck, which is not a mammal at all, but a bird.
It has a duck like beak.
duck + beaver = platypus
No, they have never been called the duck bills.
Duck+Beaver=Platypus
No. The platypus is not a hybrid of anything.The species is ornithorhynchus anatinus and is not a mix of a beaver, duck, otter or any other creature.
Platypuses did not evolve. The platypus has always been a platypus. It is not derived from the beaver, otter, duck or any other animal. There is no actual evidence of evolution in the platypus's line. Fossils of possible platypus ancestors indicate that, if it did indeed have other ancestors, they shared the same characteristics the modern platypus has today.
duck+beaver