Today's top searches

[RobJohnson]

Find today's list of top searches on Yahoo today an interesting mix:

1. Mariah Carey Wedding
2. Natassia Malthe
3. Vito Fossella
4. Hezbollah
5. R. Kelly
6. Eddy Arnold
7. Tornadoes
8. What Happens in Vegas
9. Kobe Bryant
10.Duck-billed Platypus

What is up with some of these...why so popular? What had the Platypus done today? I have not checked, but I betcha its some type of "save the planet" story....

[bijou]

Platypus Genome Shows Beauty Is More than Skin Deep
Posted May 9, 2008

...Genomic analysis published today in the journal Nature, shows platypus' 18,527 protein-encoding genes contain alive-and-well representatives from mammals, birds and reptiles.

For the most part, those species continued to adapt and specialize so that today they look nothing like each other and have developed unique genes. Biologists estimate some 9,500 different species of birds currently inhabit the Earth, along with nearly 9,000 species of reptiles and 4,000 species of mammals. Only three species of egg-laying mammals, known as monotremes, currently exist, including the platypus and its long- and short-nosed echidna cousins—small hedgehog-looking animals also known as spiny anteaters.

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http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/plants-animals/2008/05/09/platypus-genome-shows-beauty-is-more-than-skin-deep.html

[Chris_]

Here's one anwer for you...

[RobJohnson]

Here's one anwer for you...

I just forgot what I was going to say.......