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Researchers from Dublin Zoo and TCD propose a standardised cryo-freezing process to improve conservation opportunities for endangered animal species.

Ideas, Inventions And Innovations How Earth’s Oddest Mammal Got To Be So Bizarre Often considered the worlds 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 ...