World's Strangest Creature? Part Mammal, Part Reptile

by stvalentine | May 10, 2008 at 08:19 am | 56 views | add comment
World's Strangest Creature? Part Mammal, Part Reptile by stvalentine

An Australian native platypus is seen in this May 15, 2002 handout photograph made available on May 7, 2008. Australia's unique duck-billed platypus -- an egg-laying, furry animal with web feet that spends most of its time underwater -- is in fact part bird, part reptile and part mammal according to its gene map.
Photograph by : Reuters

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World's Strangest Creature? Part Mammal, Part Reptile

The platypus is really considered the strangest creature on the Earth........""The platypus is a very ancient offshoot of the mammal tree, so it was 166 million years ago that we last shared a common ancestor with...

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