duck-billed platypus : Definition, Usages, News and More
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duck-billed platypus
n small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet; only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae
From Tom Paine to Glenn Greenwald, we need partisan journalism By Jack Shafer (Reuters) - I would sooner engage you in a week-long debate over which taxonomical subdivision the duck-billed platypus belongs to then spend a moment arguing whether Glenn Greenwald is a journalist or not, or whether an activist can be a journalist, or whether a journalist can be an activist, or how suspicious we should be of partisans in the newsroom. It's not that those ...
July 17, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News