The Platypus Code

It's official. The weirdness of the hodgepodge that is the platypus is now confirmed genetically. The animal is so strange, anatomically and physiologically, that British scientiests at first thought it was a hoax when it was sent from Australia in the 19th century. The animal looks like it is made up of spare parts from duck, mole and beaver. It lays eggs and is both furry and poisonous. AND it has cool electro-reception to work out where its food is swimming. Now they tell us that, true to form, it has bird, reptile and mammalian-type DNA. The fact that they sequenced it was cool enough, this just takes the cake.