Australian platypus genome a link to evolution
Thursday, May 8, 2008 - 00:00
in Biology & Nature
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's unique duck-billed platypus -- an egg-laying, furry animal with web feet that spends most of its time underwater -- is in fact part bird, part reptile and part mammal according to its gene map.
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