| Unlike platypuses, echidnas lack webbing and instead have large, shovel-like claws are present on all feet. |
| The sedge land and moorlands are distinctive for wombats, and the coastal heaths for green rosellas, platypuses, and short-nosed echidnas. |
| Authors might conjure up androids that dream of electric sheep, but can we now say for sure that platypuses dream of juicy crayfish? |
| The only living monotremes are the platypuses and the echidnas. |
| Male platypuses have a spur on the inner side of each ankle that is connected to a venom gland located over the thighs. |
| They are protected in a temporary pouch in echidnas but not platypuses. |
