
Nearly all mammals (dogs, cats, horses, pigs, bears, whales, people, et cetera) are eutherians. Flat, beaver-like tail: with its mash-up of traits, the platypus may be one of the strangest mammals on Earth today.Īll mammals have mammary glands which produce milk to feed their young. The platypus doesn’t look much like anything else because it looks like everything else.īird-like bill. Evolutionists believe horses and zebras have a close common ancestor because they look so much alike. Traditionally, biologists classified animals based on appearance. Such a fantastically complicated animal requires a fantastically complicated evolutionary myth to explain its origin-and the evolutionists have come up with one. Now, researchers have found that this Australian oddity has another unexpected feature: It fluoresces under ultraviolet light. Now, on top of everything else, it glows in the dark like a florescent rock.īetween the electricity-sensing bill, venomous heel spurs and egg laying, the platypus was already one of the strangest mammals alive today ( SN: 5/8/08). Since it would have had to have inherited its strange features from so many different kinds of animals, its ancestry puzzled evolutionists. If evolution were true, it would have inherited those characteristics from a more primitive ancestor.


When it was discovered, the platypus was hard to classify because of its strange collection of characteristics. The platypus is a Christmas present to creationists. The Neon Platypus Feature Article - December 2020
