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Are mammals born in eggs

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Most mammals are not hatched from eggs. Only the monotremes, or egg-laying mammals, reproduce by external eggs. Monotremes include just the platypus, the long-beaked echidna and the short-beaked echidna.

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No. Other than the platypus and echidna, mammals do not lay eggs.

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This is correct. Only the monotremes, which include the platypus and echidna, are egg-laying mammals.

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