It shouldn't exist really, at least it shouldn't exist now, but it does, anomaly and all. Of course, it lives in a place that is an anomaly anyway, but I digress.
No, the platypus, shows us that cut and paste sometimes can come up with something that works as much as it is interesting. And it does put the question on what was intelligent design thinking, but I digress again.
Yes, with genetic analysis available, the study of the platypus can tell us a lot of what we are and what it is, the platypus that is. The platypus is mostly us, mammals that is. We share a lot of genetic material with the platypus. Of course, we share a lot of genetic material with a lot creatures both great and small. I mean we are related to the earth worm, for instance, and some of us resemble it more closely than most of us would like, but I digress again.
No, hail the platypus, something different and alive with the difference, be it fur or egg, bill or teeth, arms and legs or flippers, it all is the platypus and he is one of us.
