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Consider the Platypus

Evolution through Biology's Most Baffling Beasts

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    • PART 1: OUTSIDE IN
    • PART 2: SONG OF MYSELF
    • PART 3: HOPELESS MONSTERS
    • PART 4: THE SECRET TO ETERNAL LIFE
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PART 2: SONG OF MYSELF

FRUIT FLY (Drosophila melanogaster ): The Original Supermodel of the World

VENT SHRIMP (Rimicaris exoculata): Eyeless Wonder

GREAT BARRIER REEF DEMOSPONGE (Amphimedon queenslandica): Your Simple Cousin

COMB JELLY (Mnemiopsis leidyi): Yin and Yang-Some of This, None of That

SOUTH AMERICAN LUNGFISH (Lepidosiren paradoxa) versus AFRICAN COELACANTH (Latimeria chalumnae) Fossil or Fam?

ZEBRAFISH (Danio rerio): Full Transparency

AFRICAN CLAWED FROG (Xenopus tropicalis, Xenopus laevis): Sleeper Cells

ZEBRA FINCH (Taeniopygia guttata): Talking the Walk

GRAY SHORT-TAILED OPOSSUM (Monodelphis domestica): Great Grandmammal

NINE-BANDED ARMADILLO (Dasypus novemcinctus) and HOFFMANN TWO-TOED SLOTH (Choloepus hoffmanni): Cousins from Way Back

HOUSE MOUSE (Musmusculus): Of Mice and Men

BONOBO (Pan paniscus): Other Brother from Another Mother

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