-
mammals in that they lay eggs,
female monotremes are like
other mammals in that they
nurse their young with milk.
Monotremes have been
considered by some authors...
- 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/...
- All amphibians, reptiles, birds,
cartilaginous fish and a few
mammals (
monotremes, afrosoricids, and
marsupial moles, etc.) have this ****, from which...
- the
metatherians (including the marsupials) but
excludes the egg-laying
monotremes and
various extinct mammals evolving prior to the
common ancestor of placentals...
-
based on
reproductive techniques: egg-laying
mammals (yinotherians or
monotremes - see also Australosphenida), and
mammals which give live
birth (therians)...
- In a
further reappraisal, the
molars of
embryonic and
fossil monotremes (living
monotreme adults are toothless)
appear to
demonstrate an
ancestral pattern...
- 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...
- line organs,
those of
monotremes are
based on
cutaneous glands innervated by
trigeminal nerves. The
electroreceptors of
monotremes consist of free nerve...
