Date: 25/01/2019 16:06:34
From: PermeateFree
ID: 1335655
Subject: Ancient reptile was like a prehistoric platypus

>>Although the modern-day platypus may seem like a real oddball of an animal, it turns out that a prehistoric reptile had some of the same key features. Like the platypus (which is a mammal, albeit one that lays eggs), Eretmorhipis carrolldongi had small eyes, four flippers, and a flexible duck-like bill.<<

https://newatlas.com/eretmorhipis-carrolldongi-prehistoric-platypus/58196/

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Date: 25/01/2019 16:21:24
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1335660
Subject: re: Ancient reptile was like a prehistoric platypus

Hadrosaurs are known as duck-billed dinosaurs.

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Date: 25/01/2019 16:22:38
From: Zarkov
ID: 1335663
Subject: re: Ancient reptile was like a prehistoric platypus

mollwollfumble said:


Hadrosaurs are known as duck-billed dinosaurs.

Seen some fown at the lcoal pond

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Date: 25/01/2019 16:24:45
From: Witty Rejoinder
ID: 1335664
Subject: re: Ancient reptile was like a prehistoric platypus

Zarkov said:


mollwollfumble said:

Hadrosaurs are known as duck-billed dinosaurs.

Seen some fown at the lcoal pond

That ECT is playing havoc with your spelling…

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Date: 25/01/2019 16:26:14
From: Zarkov
ID: 1335665
Subject: re: Ancient reptile was like a prehistoric platypus

Witty Rejoinder said:


Zarkov said:

mollwollfumble said:

Hadrosaurs are known as duck-billed dinosaurs.

Seen some fown at the lcoal pond

That ECT is playing havoc with your spelling…

I knw hands shaking

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Date: 25/01/2019 16:28:59
From: PermeateFree
ID: 1335668
Subject: re: Ancient reptile was like a prehistoric platypus

mollwollfumble said:


Hadrosaurs are known as duck-billed dinosaurs.

But they looked and behaved nothing like Platypus, plus their bills were made of different substances.

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Date: 25/01/2019 16:33:43
From: Bubblecar
ID: 1335671
Subject: re: Ancient reptile was like a prehistoric platypus

Impressively odd.

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Date: 25/01/2019 16:41:20
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1335681
Subject: re: Ancient reptile was like a prehistoric platypus

Witty Rejoinder said:


Zarkov said:

mollwollfumble said:

Hadrosaurs are known as duck-billed dinosaurs.

Seen some fown at the lcoal pond

That ECT is playing havoc with your spelling…

The word is spelt ‘cloacal’.

But that’s beside the point. Eretmorhipis carrolldongi had small eyes, four flippers, and a flexible duck-like bill. That makes it much more platypus-like than a hadrosaur.

I’m sure I’ve seen some platypus-like non-mammal before On “walking with dinosaurs” perhaps? Or on “the future is Wild”?

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Date: 25/01/2019 16:50:32
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1335688
Subject: re: Ancient reptile was like a prehistoric platypus

mollwollfumble said:


Witty Rejoinder said:

Zarkov said:

Seen some fown at the lcoal pond

That ECT is playing havoc with your spelling…

The word is spelt ‘cloacal’.

But that’s beside the point. Eretmorhipis carrolldongi had small eyes, four flippers, and a flexible duck-like bill. That makes it much more platypus-like than a hadrosaur.

I’m sure I’ve seen some platypus-like non-mammal before On “walking with dinosaurs” perhaps? Or on “the future is Wild”?

Not this one.

“Prehistoric platypus-like fish reconstructed by Australian scientists. Brindabellaspis had nostrils in its eye sockets and a long bill with jaws. It is named Brindabellaspis after the Brindabella range, near Canberra, and belongs to an extinct group of armoured prehistoric fish known as placoderms.”

Found June 2018.

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