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Monotremes and marsupials are mammals, so there's something wrong with your question. Monotreme mammals reproduce by egg-laying, marsupials do so by given birth to relatively poorly developed young which then, in most but not all cases, develop
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If I understand the question (which I'm not sure I do), some of the points to answer it are: - Any grouping above the species level (and be aware that the species level is also quite discussed/challenged) is arbitrary. Putting taxa together is
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Google is your friend! The following links should just about cover anything you're wanting to know about Monotremes.
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Monotremes are a "group" of mammals that lay eggs. Birds are not mammals and therefore not monotremes.
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The main theory for this seems to be that, when the continents shifted and separated thousands of years ago, the Australian continent was left without any large predators. Unlike other continents, which most likely had marsupials and monotremes as
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There are three groups of mammal: placental mammals, marsupials, and monotremes. Monotremes only include the platypus and four species of echidna. The remaining mammals are all placentals or marsupials. The placental mammals are clearly dominant,
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Mammals are a diverse group which has dominated terrestrial ecosystems for 65 million years, since the previous rulers, the dinosaurs, were obliterated by an incoming meteor, leaving only avians as descendants. When mammals evolved depends on what
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Monotremes ("one hole," referring to their genitals) are members of Order Monotremata, the smallest of three groups of mammals (the others being marsupials and placentals), and the most distantly related to other living mammals. Monotremes split
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