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Duck-billed Platypus is Even Stranger
2012-12-27
Everyone knows that the duck-billed platypus is pretty strange. But it seems this mammalÂ’s eccentricities extend beyond its famous bill, and habit of laying eggs, to the way its genes determine sex. Not content with one pair of sex chromosomes, the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) has five.
Article is a Creationism piece, but the content on the platypus was news - very strange news - to me.
Posted by:Glenmore

#2  just found out recently that they have venomous hind leg spurs - pretty weird for a mammal
Posted by: Frank G   2012-12-27 16:39  

#1  With a lower 'dating opportunity' for this species, perhaps there arose more need for a built-in diversity of the gene pool?
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2012-12-27 14:11  

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