Instructions for a Platypus

Australia has some weird animals. For example, the platypus has venom like a reptile, lays eggs like birds and most reptiles, and produces milk to feed it’s young like a mammal. In biology it is classified as a monotreme, a mammal that lays eggs.

We now know more about the platypus than ever before as it’s genome has just been sequenced. That means we know the list of instructions encoded in the animals DNA. Read more here, here or here.