Science news articles about 'duck billed platypus'

... duck-billed platypus: part bird, part reptile, part mammal -- and the genome to prove ... well as lactation - a characteristic of all mammals. Interestingly, the platypus lack nipples, so its young nurse ...

... .), and monotremes (egg laying mammals, e.g. the duck-billed platypus). When comparing these three mammalian groups at a specific region of the genome (called Dlk1-Dio3), Ferguson-Smith ...