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Is a platypus crossed by a rat and a duck?

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No. The platypus is not produced by crossing any animals. They were in Australia long before white man came and started degrading the environment and nature.
Platypuses are monotremes - egg-laying mammals - and not at all related to rats (placental mammals) or ducks (birds).

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