scientific progress

It seems the platypus really is God’s little joke.

DNA studies recently found out that the reason the widely-agreed-to-be-mammalian-platypus exhibits characteristics of mammals, birds, and reptiles is, no joke, platypus have DNA structures of mammals, birds, and reptiles.

Human-rabbit hybrid embryos. What? Sounds pretty strange right? What about human-pig hybrid embryos? It sounded like science fiction to me, but on the news last week was a report about Britian's government approving a new stem cell research project which involves such hybrid embryos.