Yet it was covered in fur. People were intrigued. Scientists pondered over it. The great egg debate went on for 82 years. Finally, a Scottish zoologist visiting Australia plucked up courage to look under the platypus's kilt and confirmed that the female really does lay eggs.
All fossils found of it are essentially the same as today's living creatures.
It certainly shows no signs of evolution. Its only significant change seems to have been to lose some teeth and shrink in size. Indeed, evolutionary scientists are baffled about the ancestry of the platypus. They openly admit that nothing is known about its history that can explain its geographical distribution. Evolutionists said these fossil platypus fragments weren't useful, since they were merely 15 million years old.