2008, May 13, Natalie Angier, A Gene Map for the Cute Side of the Family, The third group of mammals, the monotremes, claims a measly three distinct animals, and all are indigenous to Australia and New Guinea: the duckbilled platypus and the long-beaked and short-beaked echidnas, also known as spiny anteaters.
2005, Carson Creagh, Simone Ende, Angela Milner, DinosaursThe duckbilled dinosaurs (hadrosaurs) had broad, ducklike beaks. They walked or ran on their hind legs, and leaned down on their shorter front legs to graze on vegetation.
