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How are platypus similar to reptiles and mammals?
No. Fossil evidence indicates that platypuses have always existed more or less in their current form. Ancient platypuses were larger and had teeth, unlike modern platypuses, but platypuses do not provide any sort of evolutionary link between reptiles and mammals.
Are platypuses mammals or reptiles?
Platypuses are mammals. They are warm-blooded, unlike reptiles, and they have fur, unlike reptiles which have scaly skin. Platypuses are monotremes, meaning they are egg-laying mammals.
How do spiny anteaters and duckbill platypuses differ from reptiles?
Quite aimply, echidnas and platypuses are mammals. They are warm-blooded, unlike cold-blooded reptiles, with a covering of fur, rather than scaly skin.
How is a platypus like a reptile?
The platypus is nothing like a bird. It is an egg-laying mammal. The eggs it lays are soft-shelled and leathery, unlike a bird's eggs, which are hard-shelled. There are some general characteristics which are similar. Birds and platypuses are both air-breathing endothermic vertebrates. Birds and platypuses both have a cloaca, a single vent for both reproduction and waste.
Are platypuses and echidnas reptiles?
No. Echidnas and platypuses are Mammals, not reptiles. They are unique egg-laying mammals known as moniemes. There are several reasons why platypuses and echidnas are classified as mammals. 1. Platypuses and echidnas have fur (all mammals have fur, skin or hair). 2. They breathe using lungs (not gills). 3. They are warm blooded. 4. The main reason is that they suckle their young on mothers' milk. 5. They have a flexible neck with seven cervical vertebrae. 6. Platypuses and echidnas show enhanced neocortex development. 7. Sound is produced by the larynx (a modified region of the trachea). 8. Limbs are oriented vertically 9. Like all mammals, they have a heart with 4 chambers. 10. Internal temperature is generally high.
What do platypuses feel like?
Platypuses have dense, velvety fur. Their bill is leathery, not hard.
Do platypuses experience puberty?
Like all mammals, platypuses reproduce by sexual means.
What do mother platypuses feed their young?
Platypuses are mammals: therefore, mother platypuses, like all mammals, feed their young on mothers' milk.
Can platypuses give birth?
No. Platypuses, like echidnas, are monotremes, meaning they are egg-laying mammals. Baby platypuses hatch from soft, leathery eggs.
Do platypuses roar?
Platypuses do not roar. At most, they make a soft, puppy-like growling sound.
What are two reptile-like characteristics in the platypus?
The only reptile-like characteristic which platypuses have is the fact that they reproduce by laying soft-shelled, leathery eggs (and not all reptiles lay eggs, either). Apart from that, these creatures fit all the characteristics of mammals.
Why are chameleons like reptiles?
Chameleons don't look like reptiles but they are reptiles.
