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The platypus has long been one of nature’s most bewildering creatures. It lays eggs. It has a duck-like bill and a ...

They already have the bill of a duck, the tail of a beaver, lay eggs like reptiles and have venom like snakes. Yet the humble ...

The species’ melanosomes—tiny, pigment-filled structures inside hair cells—are hollow, a trait never before seen in mammals ...

Kathryn Russell receives funding from Melbourne Water and the Australian Research Council. Darren Bos receives funding from Melbourne Water. Rhys Coleman works for Melbourne Water. Has received ...

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