When running an organic synthesis chemistry experiment it is important to keep detailed notes. Often an experiment does not proceed as expected and there are odd results. It is good to know we now have an additional note to use: The synthesis produced unexpected results but we suspect evil forces manipulated the physical matter using a spiritual force slicing into the earthly realm.
Regarding unusual species, the genome of the platypus is interesting:
"In May, Nature magazine published a draft sequence of the entire genome of the platypus, the bizarre mammal endemic of Australia that is so strange looking that the first scientists who received a description of it from Captain John Hunter in 1798 thought it was a joke.
Far from being a joke, the platypus is a strong piece of evidence for the theory of evolution (not that it really needed additional ones) and, scientifically speaking, a rich source of insight into the evolution of mammals from reptile-birds (birds are considered a group of reptiles, in particular, part of the same line of descent as dinosaurs).
The platypus genome project has confirmed what evolutionary biologists had surmised from the morphological and physiological features of the platypus: the animal’s biology is a bridge (a “missing link,” if you will) between reptiles and mammals, with genetic features found in each group (again, including birds, which are really flying reptiles). Moreover, some of the features of the platypus are not the result of common ancestry with the reptiles, but of another well known evolutionary phenomenon: convergence. For instance, male platypuses have a spur that can deliver a venom powerful enough to kill a dog. A chemical analysis of the venom reveals that it is made of a “cocktail” of various peptides (short proteins), similar to the venom of snakes. Except that the platypus did not inherit its venom-making ability from reptiles, it evolved it independently, as the molecular studies clearly show"
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