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God’s Joke: The Duck-billed Platypus

In order to get closer to the mysteries of life, one needs to look no further than the living wonder known as the Platypus. Often considered "God’s joke," the Duck-billed Platypus comes from the oldest family of mammals, which lived on Earth millions of years ago – predating the geographic split between South America and Australia.

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Is It a Mammal? Is it a Bird? Is it a Reptile? No It’s All Three

Image by Vicious bits Congratulations, everybody, we’re all one evolutionary step closer to the snakes and reptiles than we were yesterday. Scientists, in sequencing the genome of the duck-billed platypus, which has traditionally been classified a mammal, found enough reptilian characteristics to characterize it as an important discovery [...]

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