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The monotremes of Home-Earth form a small group of Australasian oddballs, a trio of species (the platypus and two echidnas) that are unique among living mammals in their retention of many primitive features, the most famous of which is reproduction though egg-laying. They are popularly, if somewhat erroneously, portrayed as “living-fossils”, curiosities from some bygone era that have only survived by living in some biogeographical backwater where “time stood still”.

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  • Spec Mammalia: Monotremata
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  • The monotremes of Home-Earth form a small group of Australasian oddballs, a trio of species (the platypus and two echidnas) that are unique among living mammals in their retention of many primitive features, the most famous of which is reproduction though egg-laying. They are popularly, if somewhat erroneously, portrayed as “living-fossils”, curiosities from some bygone era that have only survived by living in some biogeographical backwater where “time stood still”.
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  • The monotremes of Home-Earth form a small group of Australasian oddballs, a trio of species (the platypus and two echidnas) that are unique among living mammals in their retention of many primitive features, the most famous of which is reproduction though egg-laying. They are popularly, if somewhat erroneously, portrayed as “living-fossils”, curiosities from some bygone era that have only survived by living in some biogeographical backwater where “time stood still”. The situation on the Specworld could not be more different. Here, the monotremes are vastly more diverse, vastly more widespread and have attained a fair greater size than their HE counterparts. They swim through the desert sands of the Ozspec outback while their haunting calls can be heard across the frigid Antarctic coast. They have taken to the oceans and become the largest mammals that Spec has ever seen. Phylogenically, they may be the basalmost of living furballs, but they are also some of the most highly specialized mammals on the planet.
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