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Name: Geoff H.
Status: student
Age: 13
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Date: Saturday, April 20, 2002
Question:
Do Marsupials have placentas?


Replies:
Marsupials do have placentae.

They are short lived but they do exist.

This is one of those famous misconceptions.

Reference site:
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/eutheria/placental.html

Steve Sample

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