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Can mammals lay eggs?
The duck-billed platypus
The duck-billed platypus
Most mammals give birth to live young, but there are some mammals - the monotremes - that lay eggs the way birds and reptiles do. The platypus and the echidna are both examples of monotremes.
 
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