[PatrickHenry]

It's not every day we get a platypus thread these days.

[P.O.E.]

Expulsion from the Madison Square Garden of Eden?

I'm going to burn for this one, fer sure.

[Hacksaw]

Ear-splitting discovery rocks mammal identity

My ears are splitting and I am rocked! Guess I'll have to call off work.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

says palaeontologist Thomas Martin of the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany. "I was quite shocked when I heard that such a complex morphological transformation happened twice."

Then why wasn't he "shocked" that it is claimed to have happened once all by itself? Concerns about complexity are anti-evolutionary arguments. Anything that happens once should be assumed to happen over and over.

[Terabitten]

Platypus and science ping.

[B-Chan]

Glass of milk
Standing in between extinction in the cold
and explosive radiating growth
So the warm blood flows
Through the large four-chambered heart
Maintaining the very high metabolism rate they have

Mammal, mammal
Their names are called
They raise a paw
The bat, the cat
Dolphin and dog
Koala bear and hog

One of us might lose his hair
But you're reminded that it once was there
From the embryonic whale to the monkey with no tail
So the warm blood flows
with the red blood cells lacking nuclei
Through the large four-chambered heart
Maintaining the very high metabolism rate they have

Mammal, mammal
Their names are called
They raise a paw
The bat, the cat
Dolphin and dog
Koala bear and hog

Placental the sister of her brother Marsupial
Their cousin called Monotreme
Dead uncle Allotheria

Mammal, mammal
Their names are called
They raise a paw
The bat, the cat
Dolphin and dog
Koala bear and hog
The fox, the ox
Giraffe and shrew
Echidna, caribou