Assertion: monotreme | /r/CapableOf | lay egg
Facets:
value: like their amniote ancestors
type: OTHER
value: until other mammals
type: OTHER
value: like reptiles
type: OTHER
value: like birds
type: MANNER
value: unlike marsupials
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The fact that monotremes lay eggs is partly what earned them their subclass name prototheria.
text: Monotremes are the only mammals in the world that lay eggs rather than give birth to 'live' babies.
text: Until other mammals, monotremes lay one to three eggs relatively small leathery eggs.
text: Monotremes (monotremata) are a unique group of mammals that lay eggs, unlike placental mammals and marsupials, who give birth to live young.
text: The most striking difference from other mammals is that monotremes lay eggs.
text: Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs like birds and reptiles, but feed their babies milk like other mammals.
text: Monotremes are different from other mammals because they lay eggs and have no teats.
text: Monotremes are the only mammals that lay eggs.
text: The words meant that monotremes lay eggs, and the eggs have large yolks, like birds' eggs.
text: Monotremes lay eggs.
text: Monotremes lay eggs, and the eggs hatch into the pouch in the mother’s body.
text: No one yet knew that this furry, milk-giving animal also laid eggs ( Monotremes lay eggs but give milk to their young, are covered in fur, and share other characteristics of marsupial and placental mammals.
text: That is, monotremes lay eggs, and the eggs are similar to those of reptiles in that only part of the egg divides as it develops.
text: Why do monotremes lay eggs?
text: Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth.
text: A monotreme is a mammal that lays eggs.
text: A monotreme is a type of mammal that lays eggs.
text: A monotreme is a unique and unusual mammal, not only because it lays eggs, but also because some of its skeletal structure resembles birds and reptiles.
text: That is, monotremes lay eggs, and the eggs are similar to those of reptiles in that only part of the egg divides as it develops.
text: Monotremes are mammals with a unique method of reproduction: they lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young.
text: Even though monotremes lay eggs, they have mammary glands that produce milk for the young ones after they hatch.
text: Last century, echidnas caused an uproar among scientists when in 1884 a Scottish naturalist William H. Caldwell announced to the British Academy that monotremes lay eggs.
text: They lay eggs and have a single opening (cloaca) for reproduction and elimination of wastes.
text: The main difference between monotremes and marsupials is that monotremes lay eggs whereas marsupials give birth to the live young ones that further develop inside a pouch of the mother’s body.
text: Monotremes lay eggs.
text: This is why the monotremes still lay eggs like their reptilian ancestors.
text: unlike most other mammals, monotremes never evolved live birth, but instead lay eggs like their amniote ancestors.
text: The monotremes differ from other mammals in their methods of reproduction; in particular, they lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young.
text: Monotremes lay eggs.
text: Part of the order known as Monotremata, monotremes are the only mammals that don’t give birth to live young but instead lay eggs.