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flag Ancient platypus species discovered in South Australia with teeth.

flag Scientists discovered a 25-million-year-old platypus species with teeth that swam alongside ancient dolphins in what is now South Australia's Flinders Ranges. flag Previously known only from one-and-a-half molars, researchers from Flinders University, led by Associate Professor Trevor Worthy, expanded the fossil record after two decades of excavation. flag The findings reveal that early platypuses lived in coastal waters during the Oligocene epoch, challenging assumptions about their habitat and evolutionary history.

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