LONDON (Reuters) - Emotions ran high for Novak Djokovic on Monday as he angrily lashed out at Wimbledon fans following his three-set demolition job over young Dane Holger Rune in the fourth round, while it was game over for a previously indestructible Alexander Zverev.
DUCK-billed, beaver-tailed, web-footed, egg-laying and venomous, the platypus is one of Mother Nature’s weird and wondrous enigmas.
That being said, while most are aware of the platypuses’ quirky appearance, did you know that they are just as unusual on the inside? For example, it is claimed that these critters do not have a stomach at all.Defying all conventional wisdom yet again, the platypus is an exception in the mammalian world in that it does not possess a functioning stomach. Instead, its gullet connects directly to its intestines with nothing in between.
However, if an animal’s diet does not require such heavy-duty digestive enzymes, the stomach becomes a worthless and redundant organ. Interestingly, most species that have abandoned the stomach completely lose the genes associated with such an organ. However, according to a principle known as Dollo’s law, “an organism never returns exactly to a former state, even if it finds itself placed in conditions of existence identical to those in which it has previously lived.”
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