I think God created the platypus to be a perpetual thorn in the side of the scientist and his infernal habit of trying to neatly classify everything that doesn't necessarily need to be neatly classified. Maybe God created some things to just be. Maybe something is beautiful just because we can't comprehend it.
(This idea popped into my head shortly before midnight and wouldn't leave me alone until I had turned on the light and written it down. Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor?)
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They're monotremes, the most primitive extant mammals. ^_^ Don't ask me how I know this or why I'm up at 4 in the morning (but at least it's on a holiday...) The only other animal in that group is the echidna, I think. Which is weird, because one looks like a duck, and the other looks like a porcupine/hedgehog (it's the egg-laying commonality I guess...). Also, this doesn't detract at all from how funny they are. Anyways, there's your bio lesson for the morning/evening!
I knew it! I KNEW IT! Someone was gonna to comment and try to classify the platypus! ARGHH!!!
Buahahaha! Though honestly, I didn't know this at all until about 2 months ago... go go vertebrate biology class, heh.
*sigh* some people just try to ruin the profoundness of your reflections. All I remember is the platypus in Rescuers Down Under.... or was that an Echidna? Wait, isn't "Echidna" the name for the Greek mother of all monsters??
Well, I'm not *trying* to. Now I feel all guilty about (failing at?) trying to add a fun fact. D:
Although I didn't know the bit about the mother of all monsters, now I learned a new fun fact. >_>
Echidna was not the mother of ALL monsters...just the more spectacular ones like the chimera, the hydra, and the nemean lion. Zeus let her and her offspring live so that they could be a challenge for future heroes.
totally, check this out,... an article all about the platypus (for all of you who are curious...lol)
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v8/i3/platypus.asp
Well if Taylor hadn't mentioned it being a monotreme, I would have (you really need to avoid having science majors as friends. We're way too anal). But yes, sure proof that God has a sense of humour. That and Schrodinger's cat.
PS: hey that rhymes!
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