The platypus genome has been cracked

[Pepperidge]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7385949.stm

Getting Australia sorted out one freaky animal at a time. I think that with this knowledge, we can rest a little easier and take the time to better understand ourselves.

[Shadow Hog]

in b4 furries

[Zeta]

Does this mean we can start mass-producing platypuses? Because I think the world could use more of them.

[Green Gibbon!]

I'd buy one.

[Oompa Star]

Australia has the best animals on earth.

[Green Gibbon!]

All except for wombats. They have no distinguishing features to speak of and they don't do anything interesting. They're just wombats. Who decided they should be on the same continent as tasmanian devils and death adders and wallabies and shit?

[Malchik]

Has anyone of you been stun by one of those bastards. It's like bee but a hundred times worse.

[UCHU]

Manatees are cooler than platypuses.

[P.P.A.]

Wow, scientists sure a bored people.

[Cuckooguy]

You're bored enough to post on an internet message board, aren't you?

[P.P.A.]

You're bored enough to post on an internet message board, aren't you?

Good point.

[Locit]

I've always assumed scientists were some of the least bored people on the planet, what with all the discovering and such.

Except for geologists. That shit be tedious, yo.

[Hulkshmash]

This ruins everything that ever was awesome about platypuss...es...i...
Other than, of course, this song.

[Isuka]

It's obvious that the true intentions behind this weird-fauna-genome-deciphering thing is to give people the ability to lay eggs. Or some crazy shit like that.

In other words, ditto Hog.

[gr4yJ4Y]

I never knew the echidna layed eggs.

So if there was a female echidna in the Sonic series, it could have a Yoshi-like ability and throw eggs, right?

[P.P.A.]

I never knew the echidna layed eggs.

So if there was a female echidna in the Sonic series, it could have a Yoshi-like ability and throw eggs, right?

Tikal shitting eggs? No, thanks.

[DackAttac]

Hey, she could have been wearing a skirt for a reason. Let's just leave it at that.

[K2J]

I've always thought choosing an echidna as the last descendant of an ancient civilization was due to its near-unique reproduction process: Knuckles' egg could have been laid thousands of years prior, and in slowed animation until the present. Just my two cents.

[THEbigLANDMAN]

lol I can't decidewhich if funnier, platypus, just learned the word, or Ornitorinc, in my language and I am sure I laughed the first time I heard it (whenever it was)

And... I didn't need so much disturbing information about equidnas today...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna

[gr4yJ4Y]

I'm surprised there's nothing about Knuckles written in that Wikipedia article.

[Ritz]

I'd heard about echidnas having four-headed penises before, but I wasn't aware that they only used two heads at a time, or that they were interchangable. But how does that work? From what I recall of the one time I saw a picture of one, the two heads at the opposite ends were jutting out to the side at an angle, giving the thing an appearance not unlike a four-fingered hand.

Basically, it didn't look very pliable. So, does it run on a complex series of fleshy ball joints, or was I looking at a really screwy echidna dick? Or mabye the thing I saw wasn't an echidna dick at all! It could've just as easily been the paw of a dog with it's toes severed. This intrigues me to no end.

[Delphine]

echidna dick

[DackAttac]

I'm surprised there's nothing about Knuckles written in that Wikipedia article.

I'm sure some member of the embarrassingly thorough Sonic Wiki troupe probably tried to shoehorn it in before the general audience responded with a "fuck no".

[Zeta]

I had nightmares about echidna cock thanks to this topic.

[CM August]

There was a humorous Knuckles picture concerning this very subject, but I'll spare you the potential trauma.