The Insane Biology of: The Platypus

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References:

[1] https://ielc.libguides.com/sdzg/factsheets/platypus/reproduction
[2] http://www.biologyreference.com/A-Ar/Amniote-Egg.html#ixzz6xnpK9Vwy
[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06936
[4] https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/interpreting-shared-characteristics-the-platypus-genome-44568/
[5] http://www.nhc.ed.ac.uk/index.php?page=493.168.256
[6] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19805098/
[7] https://www.jstor.org/stable/56816?seq=1
[8] https://platypus.asn.au/biology/
[9] https://bit.ly/35NqVaP
[10] https://www.reed.edu/biology/professors/srenn/pages/teaching/web_2007/myp_site/phylogeny.html
[11] https://web.archive.org/web/20190307003822/http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/cea2/fa2b42aa24160e3361880581d3648d057c9b.pdf
[12] https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-2010-11-9-r95#Sec1
[13] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18463304/