Platypus by Patchi1995 on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Common Name: Platypus
Common Name Synonyms: Duck-Billed Platypus, Duck Mole, Water Mole, Platypodes
Scientific Name: Ornithorynchus anatinus
Size: 50cm in total length and 12.5cm in shoulder height in males, 45cm in total length and 11.25cm in shoulder height in females
Classification: Monotreme
Habitat: Swamplands
Diet: Carnivorous, consisted only of shrimp, annelid worms, insect larvae, and crawfish
Description: The platypus was one of the oddest of the small animals, because it had a broad flat tail like a beaver, webbed and clawed paws like an otter, and a big flat bill like a duck. It and the edchidna are one of the smallest monotremes in the fictional planet Ingitiszoa, but on our planet earth that they're the two only living monotremes lived today. Half unlike the mammals, females lay eggs until they hatched, and then the hatchlings drink their milk from their mothers.

Art (C) Shawn Brunner ,aka, Patchi1995