extremes
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Professor Flannery said the research reveals that 100 million years ago, Australia was home to a diversity of monotremes, of which the platypus and the echidna are the only surviving descendants.
From Science Daily • May 27, 2024
"It seems that 100 million years ago, there were more monotremes at Lightning Ridge than anywhere else on earth, past or present."
From BBC • May 27, 2024
This echidna species is so special because it is one of only five remaining species of monotremes, the sole guardians of this remarkable branch of the tree of life.
From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2023
“The monotremes have nothing to do with other modern mammals at all,” he said.
From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2023
In the Mammalia the eye is largely enclosed in the orbit, and bony plates in the sclerotic are only found in the monotremes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
