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Platypus: The Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World by Ann Moyal

Platypus: The Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World

Ann Moyal

248 pages 2001

2 editions

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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When the first platypus specimen reached England from Australia in 1799, the scientific community claimed that it was a hoax. On closer investigation, dubious European naturalists eventually declared it to be real, though in an age obsessed with c...

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