How to Use platypus in a Sentence

platypus

noun
  • His team is sampling the same areas to learn whether the range of the platypus has changed.
    — Mike Cherney, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • Many of the species — like the koala, platypus and echidna — aren’t found anywhere else.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
  • This group includes living mammals that lay eggs like the platypus called monotremes.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The platypus's milk seeps through pores in its abdomen, not through teats as in all other mammals.
    — National Geographic, 30 July 2016
  • And a platypus with that duck bill and beaver body is an animal unlike any other.
    — oregonlive, 27 June 2020
  • But most mammals aside from the platypus and some snakes, lizards, fish, and amphibians give live birth.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Why is the protein only present in platypus milk, and not in other mammals?
    — Jared Gilmour, miamiherald, 16 Mar. 2018
  • 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
  • Some people see a platypus, some people see a frog, and some people see this strange human.
    — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 13 Apr. 2021
  • But Cox’s daughter would have long since moved on to giraffes and platypuses.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2017
  • The platypus is one of the planet’s strangest creatures on several counts.
    — National Geographic, 11 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • Egg-laying mammals, or the monotremes, which include the platypus and echidna, don’t.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • Is the platypus a better animal than any other?
    — Patchen Barss, Quanta Magazine, 18 Aug. 2025
  • For instance, monotremes such as the platypus and echidna belong to a unique and ancient class of mammals.
    — Gat Rauner, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Every mammal gives birth to live young, except for a handful of egg-laying monotremes like the platypus.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Phase 2 is the standing process with slightly longer prosthetics with no knee but with a longer and wider foot like a platypus.
    — Lexi Lane, PEOPLE, 2 May 2026
  • The four-ounce layer is the platypus of run wear, resisting categories.
    — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Meanwhile, their pet platypus is secretly a spy foiling the evil plots of a mad scientist.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 13 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • The platypus has long been one of nature’s most bewildering creatures.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The platypus’s native predators include big fish such as Murray cod, birds of prey and dingos.
    — National Geographic, 11 Nov. 2020
  • This category includes the platypus and four species of echidnas.
    — Kevin Omland, The Conversation, 9 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • The platypus, which remained aquatic, may have retained these hollow structures.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Though some 5-15 million years ago, a much larger platypus roamed Australia.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2018
  • The film follows a bear and his platypus assistant who are travelling through the galaxy in a spacecraft that looks like a dumpster.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The common ancestor of platypuses and echidnas is believed to have been aquatic.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The platypus is an Australian mammal with some weirdly reptilian traits, like egg laying.
    — National Geographic, 30 July 2016

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