Ornithorhynchus anatinus - platypus
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Sleeping geology
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On the isolated shore
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For millions of years
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Experimental continent
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On purpose or accident?
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Mysterious evolving
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Problem solving
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A vaudeville? A nation including one superior creation
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A vertebra? Inverted...quite unheard of...
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Orphan in a family
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And a sole survivor
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He's a living fossil
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Reptillian? Mammalian
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He's a bird-beaked, beaver-butt Australian
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Amphibious? Paradox wearing plaid socks
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Furry beetle? A bugbear, and a palezoologist's nightmare
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Symmetrical physique of disbelief
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The platypus has the brain of a dolphin
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and can be seen driving a forklift in his habitat of kelp
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He is the larva of the flatworm
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and has the ability to regenerate after injury
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No relation to the flounder.
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Someone shipped him to the blokes
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Who said he was a hoax
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So they cut him to pieces, wrote a thesis
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A cranium of deceit, he's prone to lie and cheat;
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It's no wonder -- a blunder from down under
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Duckbill, watermole, duckmole!
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Barnacle
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Platypus
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Mr. Bungle |