Even its DNA doesn't fit in 1 category :)
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Arguably the oddest beast in nature's menagerie, the platypus looks as if were assembled from spare parts left over after the animal kingdom was otherwise complete.
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But this weird/adorable animal can help solving a mistery:
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"The platypus genome is extremely important, because it is the missing link in our understanding of how we and other mammals first evolved," explained Oxford University's Chris Ponting, one of the study's architects.
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
Platypus
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