The Platypus Paradox: How One Animal Teaches Us to Live Beyond the Labels
In 1799, a parcel arrived in London from halfz a world away. Inside it was a creature so peculiar, so utterly baffling, that the finest minds in British science dismissed it as a joke. It had the bill of a duck, the tail of a beaver, the feet of an otter, and the fur of a mammal. But it laid eggs. It nursed its young—without nipples. And it had venom strong enough to incapacitate a grown…














