- that they lay eggs, like all mammals, the
female monotremes nurse their young with milk.
Monotremes have been
considered by some
authors to be members...
- the five
extant species of
monotremes,
mammals that lay eggs
instead of
giving birth to live young. Like
other monotremes, the
platypus has a
sense of...
-
Echidnas (/ɪˈkɪdnəz/),
sometimes known as
spiny anteaters, are quill-covered
monotremes (egg-laying mammals)
belonging to the
family Tachyglossidae /tækiˈɡlɒsɪdiː/...
-
vertebrate animals. All amphibians, reptiles, birds, and a few
mammals (
monotremes, afrosoricids, and
marsupial moles, etc.) have this ****, from which...
-
based on
reproductive techniques: egg-laying
mammals (yinotherians or
monotremes - see also Australosphenida), and
mammals which give live
birth (therians)...
- line organs,
those of
monotremes are
based on
cutaneous glands innervated by
trigeminal nerves. The
electroreceptors of
monotremes consist of free nerve...
- the
metatherians (including the marsupials) but
excludes the egg-laying
monotremes and
various extinct mammals evolving prior to the
common ancestor of placentals...
- development. One of the earliest-known
monotremes was Teinolophos,
which lived about 120 million
years ago in Australia.
Monotremes have some
features which may...
- (2015). Abstract:
Thermoregulation in
marsupials and
monotremes,
chapter of
Marsupials and
monotremes: nature's
enigmatic mammals. Nova
Science Publishers...
- vast
majority of
extant mammals,
which are
partly distinguished from
monotremes and
marsupials in that the
fetus is
carried in the
uterus of its mother...
