Unfortunately, the real world is rife with exceptions and edge cases - duck-billed platypuses are furry and lay eggs.

不幸的是，真实的世界总是充满了例外和极端情况—鸭嘴兽既有皮毛，又通过产卵繁殖后代。

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These dinosaurs were the forerunners of the bigger and more spectacular ornithischians like stegosaurus, ankylosaurus and the duck-billed dinosaurs.

这些恐龙都是更大更壮的鸟臀目恐龙，例如剑龙、甲龙和鸭嘴龙的先祖。

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Scientists point out that the it is very difficult for these duck-billed dinosaur fossil bones to move to more younger strata as of the fracture formation.

科学家们指出，这些鸭嘴龙的骨骼化石很难随着地层断裂迁移到较为年轻的地层之中。

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During the times of isolation, a number of species of giant duck-billed dinosaurs "roamed a much smaller area than you might think given that many were larger than elephants, " Gates said.

MSN: Dinosaur boom linked to rise of Rocky Mountains

New species of duck-billed and horned dinosaurs were being born at an explosive rate of every few hundred thousand years during the brief time when the two mountain ranges and the seaway coexisted.

MSN: Dinosaur boom linked to rise of Rocky Mountains

The plea agreement required that he abandon all claims on the T. bataar and the duck-billed dinosaur, and on four more Mongolian and Chinese dinosaurs to which federal prosecutors could now connect him: two oviraptors and two more T. bataars, one of them believed to be somewhere in Great Britain.

NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention