Platypus and mammal evolution

The video can also be watched here:

http://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/platypusgenome/


"Top billing for platypus at end of evolution tree

Monotreme's genome shares features with mammals, birds and reptiles.

A draft sequence of the platypus genome reveals reptilian and mammalian elements and provides more evidence for its place in the ancestral line of animal evolution."

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080507/full/453138a.html

CREDITS TOP TO BOTTOM: MEUL/ARCO/NATUREPL; N. A. CALLOW/NHPA; W. SLOSS/NATUREPL; J. ROTMAN/NATUREPL; J. JENSEN/IMAGEQUESTMARINE.COM; J. JENSEN/IMAGEQUESTMARINE.COM; G. ELLIS/FLPA; D. WATTS/NATUREPL; D. AUBREY/SPL; H. AUSLOOS/NHPA; T. J. RICH/NATUREPL; S. DALTON/NHPA; A. SANDS/NATUREPL; B. CASTELEIN/NATUREPL

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• evolution
• platypus
• monotreme
• nature
• DNA
• mammal
• ancestor
• genome
• creation
• intelligent
• design
• crocoduck

[marrow777]

platypus is not the link between mammals and reptilians. It is wahat it is  a funny looking creature with fur and abig beak.

[infinit888]

"platypus is not the link between mammals and reptilians."

Who is making that argument?

[hume1947]

GREAT seeing the Platypus - BUT I want my money back! No details of the alleged - How it was done by the Theory of Evolution?

[infinit888]

"How it was done by the Theory of Evolution?"

Erm... natural selection. What else? Lamarckism?

[Ninjutsuryu]

Platypus are... freaks? Better take that back stupids, platypus would prolly win hand to web foot ...

[norcofreerider604]

@marrow777 You're right in that it is not a transitional form from reptiles to mammals; however, many of the features of the platypus have been preserved from very early mammals. Also, many of these primitive features were once very typical of mammalian diversity but are now found almost exclusively in the fossil record. So although the platypus is not a transitional form, it does give us some very insightful clues about our evolutionary past.

[Hayesmarkham]

The nonsense humans will spout off to maintain our illusions of godlessness.

[nerfproplayer]

is she wearing a russian hat

[dltanner99]

Novel about an alternative view of evolution  see video book trailer

[bizarewigga]

why are we still debating the truth?

[NothingMoreBlack]

I demand they be fitted with a less awkward name......

[Ne062]

tell kirk cameron there's no crockoduck, but there is a platypus

[napalmmice]

Why don't these people just STFU and let us watch footage of platypuses.

[Y05H1ROX]

The Platypus is when of the many times nature said... Oops! ... BUT ITS SO CUTE :D A little trivia... Male Platypus have a form of poison in their hind legs! :O