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Behold! God has a Sense of Humor!

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“Ah! Ah!” cried Mr. Shaw, a museum man of science in 1799, as he carefully unwrapped a specimen from New South Wales. It was Labeled: "It's a weird one; Caught in a creek; Dug from a burrow with egg nest!" Mr. Shaw’s heart thumped with suspicion of a prank or fraud, as he noted what he saw: It had the webbed feet, a rubbery bill, and the eggs of a duck. It had a wide flat beaver's tail and coarse thick brown fur. It had two snake-like fangs, on its hind legs, and small piggy eyes. It suckled its young with milk, but no nipples were found. Mr. Shaw looked hard, but found no traces of stitches, glue or bindings. How can this be? How can this be real? How utterly bizarre? "Ah! Ah! I know!" God, the creator, has a wicked sense of humor! Behold! The duck-billed, flat-footed - Platypus!

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