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 Ammit the Ancient Egyptian creature and   Australian  Platypus ,
compared .
  These '' reptile , aquatic  and mammal '' both share some very
surprising  and unique similarities ,  once you take time to examine
both   '' creatures '' carefully .
   Raising again the question '' did ancient Egyptian sailors visit
australia '', and  report sightings of the platypus to the Egyptian
artists  who   then  painted the  original  papyrus scrolls ,  by
combining animals  that the   ancient Egyptian artists knew  knew to
'' try  '' and  reflect  what the ancient sailors  verbal descriptions
of what they had seen , like the early European reports struggled to
describe a platypus back in their homeland there was nothing  remotely
like it ? .
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 In the wild you will only catch a very fleeting glimpse at a
platypus , but this   reliable and safe  '' national geographic ''
video of    ON LY 14 seconds ,  it  is about all most people ,
ancient or modern , can ever expect to see in  natural Australian bush
settings .
 IMHO  its well worth 14seconds of your time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_DD0a-hP5M&feature=related
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  Ammit is  thought by most modern scholars  to be a  bizarre
combination of  ' reptile and mammal ''  the sole product of Egyptian
mythology,  but  there are a few  investigators who have put forth the
suggestion that this creature’s description,  may stem from ancient
eyewitness accounts of carnivorous (and presumably extinct) aquatic
animals .
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  Ancient Egyptians describe   Ammit in words ,  Egyptian papyrus (No.
9901) states:
 hat en emsuh; pehu-s em tebt her-ab-set em ma.
the fore-part of a crocodile; her hind-quarters are those of a
hippopotamus; her middle part [is that] of a lion.  that  dwelt in
Duat /  Underworld , a distant place  reached by sailing a very long
way west of Egypt , both  Ammit and platypus  lived in and  near
water  , people once laughed ,  only 150 odd years ago  at early
paintings  and reports  of a platypus , when first encountered by
Europeans it was assumed to be  a hoax .
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  Based on recent studies, the average platypus population density
along  streams  is now only around one to two animals per kilometre .
Platypus are predators ,  but they dont eat  raw meat itself  ,  being
warm blooded mammals  they  require  very large amounts of food to
survive , about 30% of a given animal's body weight each day , their
food is  mainly in the form of  aquatic invertebrates and  insects and
including maggots   from dead carcass often found  in or near edges of
streams ,  female platypus with young to feed will crawl right  into
the  the chest cavity of a dead carcass seeking the  ''  fattest juicy
maggots ''  and grubs , especially  as this enclosed / protected  area
becomes a '' good source of maggots'' ,   this may appear to
uninformed onlookers to be deliberately and preferentially  seeking
out the animals '' heart ''.
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as described in ancient Egyptian texts Ammit was it seems especially
fond of eating hearts .
see pics of some early papyrus paintings of  Ammit ,
http://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/images/ammit.jpg

please  note how many later paintings of  Ammit , tend to become more
and  more varied over time ,  with the fact we know  Egyptians
abandoned the construction of pyramids over 3000 years ago ,
similarly it appears that in  later  new kingdom period in Egyptian
history , they did not continue to sail the globe , this  lost
skill ,  does  not mean they did not sail the '' globe'' ,  '' to the
west where the sun rises '' as recorded in earlier old kingdom
periods , as the   many pyramid text found  in  '' old kingdom ''
periods claim they did .
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some early paintings of the platypus show how even they struggled to
get a good look at their subject , can you imagine how hard wit would
be to draw a platypus based of a verbal  description by sailors 4000
years ago .
http://www.convictcreations.com/animals/images/platypusd.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Duck_billed_platypus_schnabeltier.jpg
In 1836 Charles Darwin, visiting Australia aboard the Beagle, became
one  the first key British scientist to sight the '' live platypus ''
in the Cox¹s River near Bathurst. ‘A Disbeliever in everything beyond
his reason might exclaim,’ he noted in his Diary, ‘surely two Creators
must have been at work’.