·
Dr. Philip Bethge CC BY-SA 4.0.
Joel Kontinen
The
platypus is an enigma for evolution. The platypus is a mammal, but it has a duck’s beak and it lays eggs.
For evolutionists the platypus is a problem as it
does not fit into their model. They have a hard time figuring how a
water-loving animal could have evolved from a bird and a mammal.
Often considered the world's oddest mammal,
Australia's beaver-like, duck-billed platypus exhibits an array of bizarre
characteristics: it lays eggs instead of giving birth to live babies, sweats
milk, has venomous spurs and is even equipped with 10 sex chromosomes. Now, an
international team of researchers led by University of Copenhagen has conducted
a unique mapping of the platypus genome and found answers regarding the origins
of a few of its stranger features
Evolutionists believe that . “During our own evolution, we humans lost all three
so-called vitellogenin genes, each of which is important for the production of
egg yolks. Chickens on the other hand, continue to have all three. The study
demonstrates that platypuses still carry one of these three vitellogenin genes,
despite having lost the other two roughly 130 million years ago. The platypus continues to lay eggs by virtue of this
one remaining gene.”
Yes, the study has millions of years that support
evolution, but given the soft tissues in dinosaurs, that would be a non-issue.
Source.
Faculty of Science - University of Copenhagen, 2021.. Mapping the platypus genome: How Earth's oddest mammal got to be so bizarre. Science Daily, 6 January .
Posts
