Publisher. A+E Networks. In Tokyo, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, representing the U.S. government, signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade and permitting the establishment of a U.S. consulate in Japan.
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The platypus is sometimes described as a living fossil because of this ancient lineage and its combination of mammalian and reptilian features. Aboriginal legend Return to Platypus Page. According to Aboriginal legend, the first platypus were born after a young female duck mated with a lonely and persuasive water-rat.The duck's offspring had their mother's bill and webbed feet and their father's four legs and handsome brown fur.he Fossil Record Return to Platypus Page. Based on a fragment of lower jaw found in opal deposits at Lightning Ridge in New South Wales, a type of ancestral platypus (Steropodon galmani) existed alongside the dinosaurs about 110 million years ago.