Sv Desk: Cute animal pictures – baby pandas, baby elephants, puppies, kittens – all these and more usually have the Internet oohing and awing over them. So, itâs not surprising that the Internet had the same reaction when a picture of a âbaby platypusâ popped up on Twitter. People couldnât keep calm and stop themselves from sharing the image and calling the little thing cute and delightful. Weâre sorry to break this to you but this isnât what a baby platypus looks like. In fact, the thing everyoneâs commenting on isnât even real.
The picture has been doing the rounds of the Internet for a while now. The image shows someone holding what looks like an adorable little animal.
The creature in the picture is actually a creation of a fantasy artist named Vladimir MatiÄ-Kuriljov. His profile shows images of the same âbaby platypusâ with a caption that reads, âSculpted in Super Sculpey, painted with acrylics. Probably the cutest thing I ever made.â
The artist also took to Instagram to share more images of the âbaby platypusâ. âLots of people were confused if it were real. Itâs not, I intended it just as a cute sculpture of a fantasy creature, and I didnât base it on any real-world reference. It kinda looks like a platypus or even more like an echidna,â the artist wrote. – htÂ