The platypus's bill is not hard like the beak of a bird. It is flexible, and made out of a leathery skin, so it feels soft and leathery to the touch.
People who have handled a platypus report that their fur feels velvety and smooth.
You cannot feel a platypus's skin. The platypus's skin is covered with thick, soft, velvety fur.
The platypus has fur, not feathers.
The platypus, like all animals, is in the kingdom Animalia.
The platypus has two lungs, like all mammals do.
Like many semi-aquatic mammals, the platypus has a streamlined body. This enables the platypus to swim and dive faster.
The platypus, like all mammals, is in the sub-phylum "vertebrata".
It's illegal to eat platypus meat they are endangered.
Like so: "The platypus's natural environment is a pleasant one".
Ornithorhynchus anatinusThe original name was Platypus anatinus, from Greek and Latin words meaning "flat-footed, duck-like". After realising that the name "platypus" had already be given to a group of beetles, the scientist involved assigned the platypus the scientific name of Ornithorhynchus anatinus, the first word of which means "bird-like snout".
Like many semi-aquatic mammals, the platypus has a streamlined body. This enables the platypus to swim and dive faster.
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penguins swim and platypus's don't
The egg of a platypus is leathery. It is not hard-shelled like a bird's egg.