Australia is home to some truly unique and unexpected creatures, but few are quite as strange and fascinating as the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). The platypus doesn’t fit into any particular ...
THE account of the teeth of Ornithorhynchus, given by Sir Everard Home in “Lectures on Comparative Anatomy,” vol. i. p. 305, explanatory of Tab. lix. vol. ii., referred to by Mr. Hart Merriam in your ...
This article was originally published with the title “The Ornithorhynchus” inScientific American Magazine Vol. 50 No. 11(March 1884), p. 167doi:10.1038/scientificamerican03151884-167 ...