Platypus genome.

[den]

Discovery on the platypus genome.

I still think echidnas are cooler.

Comments

[amazingadrian.livejournal.com]

That's weird! I thought only sea creatures could do that. Though the platypus is an aquatic mammal...

It's a trait that seems to work best in the water.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

The platypus hunts exclusively in water. It took scientists years to discover the electro-receptors, and they could never work out how it found its prey because the animals close their eyes, ears and nostrils when underwater.