Australia's "age of monotremes": new platypus species
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'This was like a bonanza': What Tim Flannery's discovery in a museum drawer could tell us about Australia's monotremes
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-05-27/meet-the-echidnapus-from-an-age-of-monotremes-in-australia/103849096
The "echidnapus" is one of the newly described ancient monotremes from a fossil hotspot in NSW that could give us more clues about an era when egg-laying mammals diversified.