The Origins of the Platypus Skin

Platypus was only briefly part of the proposed scientific name for this animal, but it really stuck around as the common name. Outwardly, the platypus looked mostly like a mammal, except for that bird like bill. But in 18 o two british surgeon and royal society fellow, sir everard home, dissected a platypus and found that the male had internal testes,. That's common to reptiles, not mammals. He also found that both males and fem s had a cloaca, that is, one orifice to the outside of the body for both digestive waste and for reproductive products. The skin that george shaw received was pretty badly des