1799 Shaw's Platypus first description

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1799 Shaw's Platypus first description
1799 First illustration by Frederick Nodder (but see Bertuch Platypus for a possible competitor) Plate 385 (original hand colouring) in George Shaw,"The Naturalist's Miscellany" vol. 10. London: F.P. Nodder. This was the first formal description of a creature described as extraordinary and originally suspected of being a fake pastiche of different animals. The beak seemed to strange to be true and Shaw wrote in the accompanying text "at first view it naturally excites the idea of some deceptive preparation by artificial means…. (it is only with) the most minute and rigid imagination that we can persuade ourselves of its being the real beak or snout of a quadruped". The even more extraordinary additional revelation that this animal laid eggs would wait for Everard Home's dissections of 1802
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