Egg Laying Mammals

In the item Things I Didn’t Know, I said the platypus is the only egg-laying mammal. Beth Karpf pointed out at least one exception that she saw in Australia; she also saw platypuses (yes, that is the preferred plural). “Correction on egg laying mammals – the platypus is not the only one.  There are also the echidnas (there are 4 species of echidnas).”

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[Daniel Dern]

Also, comedians, e.g. in https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/02/lorne-michaels-biography-saturday-night-live/681615/ "You can hear it, in the words of Michaels’s friend Joe Boyd, “laying an egg."