Shaw himself had initially believed the specimen to be a hoax consisting of body parts from different animals, sewn together to create a semblance of an extraordinary creature. When 18th-century zoologist George Shaw published the first scientific description of a platypus, many of his contemporaries did not believe that the animal was real.
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