This is the first egg-laying amphibian found to feed its babies ‘milk’
This is the first egg-laying amphibian found to feed its babies ‘milk’
Similar to mammals, these ringed caecilians make a nutrient-rich milk-like fluid to feed their mewling hatchlings up to six times a day.
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What about the platypus?
Amphibian and semi-aquatic aren't the same thing. Frogs are amphibians because they start as gilled tadpoles and turn into hoppy lungy frogs. Turtles are not amphibians because they hatch as a turtle, live as a turtle, and die as a turtle. It's turtles all the way down.
What about the platypus?
Platypus babies only drink Bundaberg Ginger Beer. Also, they're not amphibians.
Platypi are mammals
Platypussies is the plural.
Platypotti
Platipy, like echidnas, are monotremes; "primitive", egg-laying mammals.
Caecilians are amphibians, like frogs and salamanders. Whole different clade.