New Evolutionary Plot Twist: We Might Have Been Wrong About The Platypus

Everyone's favourite egg-laying little freak, the platypus, might be lying to us. Not about laying eggs, but about its evolution, and what it means for our own. Every science book says it's a relic, a mammal that never got the memo to switch to live birth like the rest of us. Free to watch on Dr.Doc Kids.

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