Platypuses might have evolved slower than earlier believed

The Hindustan Times | January 22, 2008 | Copyright

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London, Jan. 22 -- The discovery of 100 million year old fossilized jawbones of a platypus like animal suggests that egg-laying mammals such as the platypus might have evolved more slowly than other mammals.

According to a report in Nature News, the fossil found in Australia, is of an ancient creature called the Teinolophos, which lived in Australia more than 100 million years back.

Researchers have wondered whether this creature might be the ancestor of the platypus or spiny anteaters called echidnas, which are both ...

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