'First platypus' still intact
It may be more than 200 years old, but the story of the "first platypus" is still told in Australian schools. When European settlers sent back a specimen of this bizarre creature, scientists were baffled and concluded it was probably a fake. It was only when more examples arrived from "Down Under" that the issue was resolved. But what happened to that original specimen that so famously bamboozled the experts? Well it's still intact in a London museum, and in surprisingly good condition.