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How is a platypus a mammal and not a reptile?

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The Platypus is a Monotreme, or egg laying mammal. They nurse their young as do other mammals. Also they use echo location much in the same way dolphins (another mammal) do. Not all reptiles lay eggs either. Some snakes bear live young.

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