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Platypuses have fur, bills, webbed feet, and venom.
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They live in Australia in freshwater.
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Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs. Platypuses and achidna are the only ones.
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Early mammals split from dinosaurs 270 million years ago and led to platypuses.
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They have bodies like otters, tails like beavers, webbed feet like ducks, and venom like snakes.
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Platypuses are carnivores, eating bugs, shrimp, snails, mussels, worms, and tadpoles.
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They snatch food in their bills.