Scientists map the genome of the platypus
Thursday, May 8, 2008 - 02:28
in Biology & Nature
Scientists said they have mapped the genetic makeup of the platypus — one of nature's strangest-looking animals with the beak of a duck, a mammal's fur and snake-like venom.
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