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Oviparous
"Oviparous" in a Sentence (8 examples)
Easter bunnies are an oviparous species in the mammal family of Leporidae.
Mammals have breasts, oviparous lay eggs.
Viviparous animals give birth to their young while the oviparous lay eggs.
The platypus is an animal, found in Australia, which is both a mammal and an oviparous "duck".
Platypuses are oviparous mammals, which means that they lay eggs.
The echidna is a monotreme, which is the extremely small subset of oviparous mammals.
And though it might be thought that all animals who have lungs do cough; yet in cataceous fishes, who have large and strong lungs, the same is not observed; nor yet in oviparous quadrupeds: and in the greatest thereof, the crocodile, although we read much of their tears, we find nothing of that motion.
Until fairly recently, no female Somniosus had been observed to be carrying embryos, so it was assumed that this was an oviparous species.
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