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"And while a human fatality is yet to be recorded, the experience of being stung can be excruciating. Keith Payne, a recipient of the Victoria Cross (the nation’s highest military award), has said that being stung by a platypus was worse than being struck by shrapnel."
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/02/23/monotreme-dreams-platypus-matters-jack-ashby/
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Author and palaeontologist relates the fascinating evolution (and biology) of monotremes, especially the platypus, in ‘Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution”. With some witticism. They have challenged conventions for centuries.