Odd yet seems cuddly and amiable, platypus has characteristics that sets them apart with other animals. It has a big beak, can swim underwater to catch meal, has fur just like mammals, lays eggs, and suckles its young. Platypus’s feature surely baffles and amazes scientists. Moreover platypus has both the attributes of the warm-blooded and the cold-blooded. According to the latest study conducted by European Biologiformatics Institutes in Cambridge has unveiled proof that platypus has a cocktail of genes from birds, reptiles and mammals. This makes platypus which is also known as ornithorhynchus anatinius as one of a kind and provides geneticists the chance to learn about how it developed from a progenitor that also believed that bring humans to life, about 170 million years ago. Platypus has ten (10) genes which are much more than human’s two (2) genes. This could be the reason why platypus avoids diseases even without known immune system.
Confusing indeed, platypus enjoys specific genes to generate molecules as potent as antibiotics. Further studies are now in progress to track down how these amazing molecules work, if drug companies could transform these to wonder drugs to combat bug strains that wards off present day antibiotics.