Platypus Genes Hold Keys to Animal Evolution
When the British naturalist George Shaw received a weird specimen from Australia in 1799 -- one with a mole's fur, a duck's bill and serpent-like spurs on its rear legs -- he did what any skeptical scientist would do: he looked for the stitching and glue that would reveal it to be a hoax.
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