It would be hard to find a stronger creature in the world than the duck-billed platypus that lives in Australia and Tasmania.
What makes this “impossible” creature so odd is that it has a bill like a duck, where most other mammals have noses and lips. It has the soft thick fur of a mole, and a paddle-shaped tall like a beaver.
It has webbed feet, too, and it lays eggs and hatches them like a chicken. But after the eggs have hatched, the mother platypus nurses her babies with milk as do other mammals.
A fully grown duckbill may be nearly two feet long counting its tail, and weight 6 pounds.
This shy creature spend most of the day hiding in a grass-lined den, deep in some mud bank.
It comes out at night to hunt for worms, snails, and other small water creatures which it digs up (from the muddy stream bottom with its rubbery bill). – Johnny Wonder
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