What Are the Chief Types of Metamorphic Rocks

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What are the chief types of metamorphic rocks?

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Marsupials

A group of mammals characterized by giving birth to relatively undeveloped offspring that typically complete their development in an external pouch.

Opossum

is a type of marsupial found in the Americas, known for playing dead as a defense mechanism.

Monotremes

Egg-laying mammals such as the duck-billed platypus of Australia.

Oviparous

Referring to organisms that lay eggs, with embryos developing and hatching outside the mother's body.