Whats up with the Platypus?

[MrDingleDangle]

hey ... why do they call it a duck-billed platypus? it's not like there are other platypi (or whatever) out in the world? it's not like call them big stampy elephants or whatever.

 

[MrDingleDangle]

what no one cares about the platypus?

 

[pyonir]

i don't.

 

[Vadatajs]

<< hey ... why do they call it a duck-billed platypus? it's not like there are other platypi (or whatever) out in the world? it's not like call them big stampy elephants or whatever. >>



umm...it has a bill, that looks much like a duck's. NEF

 

[gopunk]

quack

 

[BD2003]

Because it has a duck bill.

 

[yakko]

What if there is another brand of platypus though?

 

[gopunk]

fyi, platypus and duckbill are synonyms... putting them together is probably just a common mistake.

 

[Oyeve]

Screw the playpus, I am more concerned with the name change of the Brontosouraus.

 

[MrDingleDangle]

<< Screw the playpus, I am more concerned with the name change of the Brontosouraus. >>



whats the new name?

 

[Ameesh]

<<

<< Screw the playpus, I am more concerned with the name change of the Brontosouraus. >>



whats the new name? >>



brachiasarus, i believe.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

platypus [mod.L. (Shaw 1799), Gr. platypous flat-footed platys flat + pous foot. Originally the generic name, but, having already been given to a genus of beetles, it was in 1800 changed for Ornithorhynchus.] A small, aquatic, egg-laying monotreme mammal (Ornithorhynchus anatinus, with webbed feet, a tail like a beaver's, and a horny beak resembling the bill of a duck: in full duckbill platypus. It inhabits rivers and their banks in eastern Australia and Tasmania.

ah, your question reveals a great and powerful intellect...although not necessarily yours.

 

[nihil]

what about hexley, the sexy platapus mascot of Darwin.

 

[Tdawg951]

ornitorrinco = platypus.......espanol style