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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Nina Massey

Discovered: 150-year-old platypus specimen that proved some mammals lay eggs

Jars of 150-year-old platypus and echidna specimens that prove some mammals lay eggs have been discovered at an English museum.

Collected in the late 1800s by the scientist William Caldwell, the tiny samples were found in the stores of Cambridge’s University Museum of Zoology.

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