How we identified weird and wonderful 'Jurassic platypus' dinosaur
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 07:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
When the platypus was discovered in very late 18th century, its bizarre features that appeared to be a mash-up of other animals perplexed naturalists. Now a creature from the past that would have looked like strange mix of unrelated dinosaurs has been discovered. And our research suggests that it belonged to a hitherto unknown lineage of herbivores that lived around 145m years ago, in the Jurassic period.