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NEARLY a hundred and fifty years have elapsed since the first descriptive account of the Platypus aroused the interest and stimulated the curiosity of the zoologist. Not only did its peculiar external features prompt the name of Ornithorhynchus paradoxus proposed for it by Blumenbach, but the general resemblance of its female reproductive organs to those of birds and reptiles rather than to those of mammals suggested its probable oviparous habit.
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Development in the Monotremes. Nature 146, 339–340 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146339a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146339a0