Another creature to join the world’s strangest animals.

The platypus sports fur like a mammal, paddles its duck feet like a bird and lays eggs in the manner of a reptile.

Nature’s instruction manual for this oddball, it turns out, is just as much of a mishmash.

Researchers just mapped the genome of a female platypus from Australia. The genetic sequence of this Aussie monotreme (a type of mammal) is detailed in the May 8 issue of the journal Nature.

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An interesting article by Space.com/ MSNBC on 10 most unsusal things, found from the Space. A slideshow with illustrations, click on the image to read more.