The platypus knows 80 different ways to poison you
The platypus is Earth’s weirdest creature – famously, 19th century biologists thought it was a hoax when first shown one – and its venom is a hodgepodge too, containing toxins borrowed from snakes, spiders, and even starfish. The fact that the platypus has venom at all is incredibly unusual for mammals, but then there’s very…
