How to Use platypus in a Sentence

platypus

noun

• And the platypus’s genome is even more special than that.
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
• His team is sampling the same areas to learn whether the range of the platypus has changed.
  — Mike Cherney, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2020
• Doesn’t sound like a lion or a lamb, or even a platypus.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2017
• And just what is this cosmic platypus, this something in the sky that should not be there?
  — John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
• The platypus is part of a small group of animals called monotremes, which lay eggs and produce milk to feed their young.
  — Maria Clark, NOLA.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• The platypus's milk seeps through pores in its abdomen, not through teats as in all other mammals.
  — National Geographic, 30 July 2016
• The platypus is one of the planet’s strangest creatures on several counts.
  — National Geographic, 11 Nov. 2020
• There are only five existing species of monotremes: the platypus and four species of echidna.
  — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2023
• Why is the protein only present in platypus milk, and not in other mammals?
  — Jared Gilmour, miamiherald, 16 Mar. 2018
• Monotremes, such as the platypus and echidna, took refuge in Australia and New Guinea, where a scant five species remain today.
  — Steve Brusatte, Scientific American, 1 June 2022
• This group includes living mammals that lay eggs like the platypus called monotremes.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2024
• Australia’s echidna, like the platypus, belongs to an odd group of mammals that lay eggs, known as monotremes.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 21 Jan. 2023
• And a platypus with that duck bill and beaver body is an animal unlike any other.
  — oregonlive, 27 June 2020
• Some people see a platypus, some people see a frog, and some people see this strange human.
  — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 13 Apr. 2021
• The prehistoric behemoth is from the sturgeon family and looks like a mashup of a shark and platypus.
  — Tim Evans, Indianapolis Star, 6 May 2020
• There are only two kinds of egg-laying mammals in existence today – the platypus and the spiny anteater species.
  — James Rogers, Fox News, 29 May 2018
• Our favorite parts of the museum were: armadillo, platypus, owls, giraffe, two headed calf, and the open space for the 16 month old to run in.
  — Jennifer D., WIRED, 13 Sep. 2011
• The four-ounce layer is the platypus of run wear, resisting categories.
  — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 26 Apr. 2022
• The platypus’s native predators include big fish such as Murray cod, birds of prey and dingos.
  — National Geographic, 11 Nov. 2020
• Though some 5-15 million years ago, a much larger platypus roamed Australia.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2018
• Only five living monotremes exist: four echidna species and the platypus.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
• But, perhaps one of the strangest things about the platypus is that its body has barely changed over the past 150 million years, when its line diverged from all other mammals.
  — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2022
• The earliest mammals, much like reptiles, laid eggs just as the duckbilled platypus and the echidna do today.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2022
• Rabaiotti: For me, the most surprising one was that platypuses don’t have stomachs.
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 21 Oct. 2018
• Meanwhile, their pet platypus is secretly a spy foiling the evil plots of a mad scientist.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Jan. 2023
• For instance, the continent is home to more than 378 mammal species, which range from the rain forest-dwelling tree kangaroo to the venomous platypus.
  — National Geographic, 5 Apr. 2018
• In 40 percent of the its current range, the platypus could disappear entirely.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Jan. 2020
• Each platypus will be tracked for the next two years to better understand how to intervene and relocate the species in the event of drought, bushfire, or flood, researchers said.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 15 May 2023
• And both echidnas and platypuses are considered monotremes.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2024
• The researchers think competition for food caused the disappearance of teeth in the platypus—the spread of the Australo-New Guinean water rat may have affected which prey platypuses hunted for.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024