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Mammals are supposed to follow certain biological rules.
This one ignores almost all of them.
It lays eggs, produces venom, and senses electricity.
Scientists were confused when they first discovered it.
Nature doesn’t follow textbooks — it rewrites them.


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00:00Imagine an animal that looks stitched together from leftovers.
00:03A duck's bill.
00:05A beaver's tail.
00:06Webbed feet.
00:07But that's just a start.
00:08It lays eggs.
00:10It senses electricity underwater, and the male carries venom.
00:13Scientists once thought it would be.
00:15It was a joke.
00:15It wasn't.
00:16This is the platypus, the mammal that ignored evolution's.
00:20Rule book and survived anyway.
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