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Do Platypuses hatch from a shell?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Baby platypuses hatch from an egg, not just a shell. Female platypuses lay soft-shelled, leathery eggs. Platypus are one of just three species of egg-laying mammals, known as monotremes. The other two are the short-beaked echidna and the long-beaked echidna..

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