Platypuses sweat milk, use electricity to see underwater, and are composed 100% of wtf

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And their genetics are even weirder with elements of bird, reptile and mammal genomes. What’s more, instead of having XY (mammals) or WZ (birds) sex-determining chromosomes they have a bunch of proto-W and proto-Z elements which taken together determine whether it’s a boy platypus or a girl platypus. I’m left with two possible conclusions

  1. They really are on a cusp between reptiles, birds and mammals
  2. God sub-contracted Australia. The requirements included a duck, but the design team had only seen the White Paper and did the best they could with what they could scavenge for the spare parts bin. They released Duck, Australian v.0.3 just before the deadline and promised to have v1.0 done by the next release. But what with the Fall and the Flood that project was cancelled
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Dude, no worries.

Platypuses aren’t the only beings which were “discovered” by science later than by the people sharing a biome or even a habitat with them.

This does not mean the scientific process is inherently flawed.

It is, of course, but this ain’t the relevant battlegrounds, dude.

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Just luv unicorns … and Platypuses!

Behold, the (philosophical) agency of the platypus …

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