Reconstruction illustration courtesy coauthor Genevieve Conway (Flinders University)
Australia's platypus, one of the world's most enigmatic animals, had an exotic origin story, according to an exciting discovery by Flinders University palaeontologists.
They have described rare 25-million-year-old fossils found east of the Flinders Ranges in remote outback South Australia which show an ancient platypus with well-formed teeth. It was able to munch on a varied diet in large inland lakes and rivers, probably with other animals such as ancient lungfish, flamingo and freshwater dolphins.
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