Mixed-up platypus genome unscrambled
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 - 13:07
in Biology & Nature
The platypus sports fur like a mammal, paddles its duck feet like a bird and lays eggs in the manner of a reptile. Nature's instruction manual for this oddball, it turns out, is just as much of a mishmash.
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