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
World's Strangest Creature? Part Mammal, Part Reptile
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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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Title: World's Strangest Creature? Part Mammal, Part Reptile
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