Platypus Hair Shares a Puzzling Feature With Bird Feathers, Adding to the Egg-Laying Mammal’s List of Unusual Characteristics
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The species’ melanosomes—tiny, pigment-filled structures inside hair cells—are hollow, a trait never before seen in mammals