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The platypus eggs that European science was slow to accept

A mammal. Eggs. And a long debate. Platypuses lay eggs and feed their young milk. Yet an 1883 book still favoured live birth.1/4
An 1883 book recorded Indigenous reports of eggs, yet favoured live birth. A year later, evidence collected with Wakkawakka help changed what European science accepted.
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  1. A mammal. Eggs. And a long debate.

    Platypuses lay eggs and feed their young milk. Yet an 1883 book still favoured live birth.

  2. The reports were already on the page.

    Buckley recorded Indigenous reports of soft eggs, then proposed that the eggs broke as they were laid.

  3. 1884: a team made the case.

    With Wakkawakka help, Caldwell’s team found a platypus with one egg in her nest and another about to be laid.

  4. Knowledge came before acceptance.

    Indigenous reports came first. European scientific acceptance followed. The collectors belong in the story too.

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