Platypus is found to have a cocktail of genomes

The Platypus is one of nature's strangest animals. It has a bill like a duck, fur like a mammal, and venom like a snake. But scientists in Australia say they have now mapped the genetic makeup of the platypus,...

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...

Maleny fights for the Platypus

The Maleny community in Queensland is fighting the proposed construction of a National Chain Supermarket on the banks of the Obi Obi Creek and above the burrows of a thriving Platypus colony.The online focus...

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