Title Illustration of beaks and feet of a duck-billed platypus.
Description
Illustration of beaks and feet of a duck-billed platypus.
Plate from volume 10 "The naturalists' miscellany, or, Coloured figures of natural objects; drawn and described immediately from nature".
Volumes 1-12 by G. Shaw and F. P. Nodder.
Rare Books
Keywords: Zoology; Richard P Nodder; Frederick Polydore Nodder
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Illustration_of_beaks_and_feet_of_a_duck-billed_platypus._Wellcome_L0075038.jpg

The platypus or duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) is a semiaquatic egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. It is one of the extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth.