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When the first platypus - dead and stuffed, of course - appeared in England, distinguished scientists spent long hours trying to find out how it had been constructed, where the fake bits had been attached, etc; which they couldn't, because it really was a pouched mammal, amphibious and with a beak. One can understand their bewilderment: platypuses do look as if they've been put together using left-overs. And that is exactly what Agathonica seems like to me. Too complicated, too ludicrous to be true.