Science:Life Sciences
What do the duck-billed platypus, antarctic toothfish, and sleepy lizard have in common? They exist, they're weird, and it is evolution's fault. In this episode, Sean and Nathan take a very very small survey of weird wildlife and some of the evolutionary forces behind their oddness.
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References:
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/10/e1601329
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(08)00665-9
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/dvdy.23887
https://www.pnas.org/content/94/8/3485
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1562/2006-02-24-IR-813
https://jeb.biologists.org/content/213/12/2048
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