Juramaia sinensis, "Jurassic mother from Ch Juramaia sinensis, "Jurassic mother from China,” is the earliest known eutherian (placental) mammal. Their discovery pushed back the split between eutherians, marsupials, and monotremes by 35my.

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Monotremes Monodreams

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Monotremes are a type of mammal! A very strange type, and less related to us than any other type of mammal, but mammals nonetheless and thus more related to us than all non-mammals.

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The only non-Eutheria mammals are the marsupials (Metatheria, "changed beasts") and the monotremes meaning... wait for it... "one-hole."😂

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Bubbatreme is a water starter based on, of course, a platypus! They are a happy and playful pokemon with a puppy-like personality! They gather water around their neck to protect themselves. 💧💧💧
The name comes from bubble and monotreme ☺

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According to the official bios, the Marsupilami is fictional species of monotreme. So here's a take on him where he shares their physical traits. (Such as a beak and webbed paws with spurs on the heels)

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My husband made a little something something for my 3MT slide this year. Can anyone guess what I am going to be talking about??

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Scourge's green coloration was inspired by Ashura and Dr. Starline's entire palette and name are inspired by wechnia (wechnia's actual name being **********, a line of stars) while also being essentially an alternate Finitevus since echidna and platypus are the only monotremes

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Words cannot describe how ready I am for it. It’s finally coming home-

also I really wanted the Platypus monster concept to be reused because I loved the idea of 2 magical monsters being based off of monotremes being it and Peckidna.

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A platypus adopt to wrap up my study on monotremes, some really cool little creatures!

🐚First come, first served.
🐚DM to claim!
🐚Cross-posted to Tumblr.

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gotta find me some patronage so I can subside off making redwallian/narnian-esque stories about mustelids and monotremes.....🥰

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Monotreme inspired semi-aquatic sapient.

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Today’s artwork , I painted this adorable platypus in watercolour for a tutorial on my YouTube Channel,it was a lot of fun researching these amazing little monotremes https://t.co/ISKSW40MkZ

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Ornithorhynchus anatinus, platypus (Ferdinand A semi-aquatic mammal found in eastern Australia. It is 1 of 5 species of monotremes, the only egg-laying mammals. The first Europeans to encounter them were bemused by its beaver-like body and duck's bill

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that echidnas (monotreme order of egg-laying mammals)are named after Echidna, a beast from Greek mythology who was half-woman, half-snake. This is because the animal was perceived to have qualities of both mammals & reptiles. Echidna's closes relatives are platypuses.

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