Australian Reptile Park team at Somersby extract platypus venom in the hope science can use it in medicine | video

Updated December 11 2017 - 10:18am, first published 9:47am
VENOM MILKING: The male platypus has a venomous spur, the sting from which is said to be excruciating. But animal venoms have been used to develop a range of medical products. Picture: Dave Watts
VENOM MILKING: The male platypus has a venomous spur, the sting from which is said to be excruciating. But animal venoms have been used to develop a range of medical products. Picture: Dave Watts

THE Australian Reptile Park has conducted its first ever platypus venom milking in the hope that it could lead to scientists finding “the next miracle cure”.

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