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An interesting atory about the duckbilled platypus is this:
The first scientific description of the Platypus, provided by George Shaw of the British Museum, was published in 1799. At first, he thought the animal was some kind of trick. He said it looked like someone had deliberately joined the beak of a duck to the head of a four-footed furry animal. Apparently Shaw tried to pull the beak off and pretty much destroyed the specimen! For more than 80 years after the first platypus skin arrived at the British Museum, scientists refused to believe in the existence of this animal.