Hope • May 7, 2026
‘Exciting’ Fossil Find Reveals That Platypuses Swam with Dolphins 25 Million Years Ago
Originally published on Good News Network
Everyone knows that the platypus is the world's strangest mammal, obeying conventions as well as Alice Cooper or Ozzy Osbourne ever did. But an "exciting" new fossil is revealing more about this ancient lineage's long history: namely some serious gnashers. Paleontologists made the rare discovery east of the Flinders Ranges in the remote outback
Everyone knows that the platypus is the world's strangest mammal, obeying conventions as well as Alice Cooper or Ozzy Osbourne ever did. But an "exciting" new fossil is revealing more about this ancient lineage's long history: namely some serious gnashers. Paleontologists made the rare discovery east of the Flinders Ranges in the remote outback
Originally published on Good News Network.
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