The Platypus Quarrel

An episode of the Stuff You Missed in History Class podcast, hosted by iHeartPodcasts, titled "The Platypus Quarrel" was published on January 3, 2022 and runs 38 minutes.

January 3, 2022 ·38m · Stuff You Missed in History Class

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When European naturalists saw a platypus for the first time, they found it so bizarre that they thought it was fake, and then argued about how to classify it for almost a century. This happened in tandem with similar discussions about another Australian animal – the echidna, or spiny anteater – and discussions of scientific taxonomy in general.

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