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monotreme::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | egg-laying mammal |
| Type of | prototherian |
| Has types | anteater, duck-billed platypus, duckbill, duckbilled platypus, echidna, ornithorhynchus anatinus, platypus, spiny anteater |
Examples of monotreme
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Like the platypus, it is a monotreme, laying eggs instead of bearing live young.
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So the main question is when a monotreme-like metabolism evolved in mammals.
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The duckbill platypus is a current member of the ancient monotreme group.
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They share a similar fauna which includes marsupial and monotreme mammals and ratite birds.
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First Mesozoic mammal from Australia-an early Cretaceous monotreme.
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The earliest known monotreme is Teinolophos, which lived about 123M years ago in Australia.
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The platypus'electroreception is the most sensitive of any monotreme.
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Jawbone fossil of the tiny monotreme species Teinolophos trusleri.
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During incubation, monotreme eggs are covered in a sticky substance whose origin is not known.
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- The most primitive mammals comprising the only extant members of the subclass Prototheria
- Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs (Prototheria) instead of giving birth to live young like marsupials (Metatheria) and placental mammals (Eutheria). The only surviving examples of monotremes are all indigenous to Australia and New Guinea, although there is evidence that they were once more widespread. The existing monotreme species are the platypus and four species of echidnas...
- A mammal that lays eggs and has a single urogenital and digestive orifice. Only the echidnas and platypuses are included in this group; Having a single trema, or aperture
- (monotremes) Egg-laying mammals; e.g., the spiny anteater and the duck-billed platypus.
- (monotremes) A group of mammals (Prototheria) that diverged from other modern mammalian groups early in the age of dinosaurs. Young are born from externally deposited eggs. Examples are the duckbilled platypus and echidna.
- A type of mammalA warm-blooded animal with a backbone that breathes air, and has at least some hair at some point during its life. The females have glands that produce milk, which they feed to their young. that lays eggs. ...
- Mammals that lay eggs and may have a pouch.
- A small group of mammals with the unusual habit of laying eggs rather than giving birth to live young. ...
- The lowest Order of mammal, comprising of primitive egg-laying mammals restricted to Australia and New Guinea and consisting of only the platypus and the echidna
