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The new jaw was bigger than that of the present-day platypus and had larger teeth. Before that discovery, they believed no land mammal had been found in Australia in sediments dated older than 23 million years.īut this platypus jaw did not help the evolutionists discover how the platypus had evolved. It seemed they had now established the platypus's great antiquity. Naturally, evolutionist scientists were excited.
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In 1984, however, a platypus jaw with three large teeth was found among a collection of opalised bones at Lightning Ridge in northern New South Wales and pronounced to be at least 110 million years old. Evolutionists said these fossil platypus fragments weren't useful, since they were merely 15 million years old. But then, all they had to go on until 1984 were two teeth, a jaw fragment, a hip-bone from the deserts of north-eastern South Australia, and a skull from north-western Queensland, over 1,200 kilometers away. They openly admit that nothing is known about its history that can explain its geographical distribution. Indeed, evolutionary scientists are baffled about the ancestry of the platypus. Its only significant change seems to have been to lose some teeth and shrink in size. It certainly shows no signs of evolution. What about the history of the platypus? Where did it come from? Why is it only found in Australia? All fossils found of it are essentially the same as today's living creatures. Finally, a Scottish zoologist visiting Australia plucked up courage to look under the platypus's kilt and confirmed that the female really does lay eggs. The great egg debate went on for 82 years. But the mother platypus has no teats - it couldn't be mammal. Mammals give live birth to their young and feed them milk from their breasts. But what about that undiscussable of nineteenth century England - the sex life of a platypus? Surely the rumors couldn't be true that here was a furry animal that actually laid eggs. Labeled 'platypus' because of its flat bill, and given the scientific name Ornithorhynchus, it had finally splashed its way into natural history.
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In 1802 an English scientist confirmed the creature was neither freak nor fraud but fact. Another, suspecting fraud, tried to pry the 'duck's bill' off the pelt the marks of his scissors can still be seen today on the original, now preserved in the British Museum of Natural History in London.īut years of doubt were conquered by reality.
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One zoologist suggested it was 'freak imposture' sold to gullible seamen by Chinese taxidermists. The perplexed local governor sent specimens back to mother England for study.īut the English found it equally unbelievable. Nicknamed the 'watermole', it was said to be a combination reptile, bird, fish and furred animal. When first seen in 1797 by early white settlers near the Hawkesbury River, outside Sydney, it triggered a search and controversy that lasted almost a century. Fur like velvet, a beaver like tail, and a soft duckish bill, this odd-looking creature can make a curious sight for those who see it for the first time. In the freshwater streams of eastern Australia lives a most unusual creature. Written by Robert Doolan, John Mackay, Dr.