This is fun, its about time they started in with the interesting creatures.. I mean who wants the genome of a fruit fly anyway(sic)!?!

I certainly would have raised one of these in space!

At first dismissed as a prank, and later cited as proof that God has a sense of humour, the duck-billed platypus has finally given up its evolutionary secrets.

…and talk about Kinky!

The fact that the animal has five X and five Y chromosomes is “the weirdest thing about a very weird animal,” said Ewan Birney, a co-author on the paper, based at the European Bioinformatics Institute, near Cambridge. “In theory it means there are 25 possible sexes, though in practice that doesn’t happen.”

Quoted from guardian.co.uk

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