The Egg Laying Mammal

Characteristics- The Platypus is a very strange animal. It has a bill like a duck and a tail like a beaver. The platypus has sleek brown fur. It has webbed feet. The platypus is a mammal but it lays eggs
Food- Yabby, shrimp, Insect larvae, and worms
Size - 15 inches
Weapon- males have stingers with venom that is not fatal but excruciatingly painful
Habitat- freshwater areas in Australia and Tasmania
Taxonomy- Phylum: Chordata
Rank: Class
Higher classification: Mammaliaformes