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Platypuses
Submitted 2 days ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Balthazar@lemmy.world 2 days ago
madjo@feddit.nl 2 days ago
Hey? Where’s Perry?
computergeek125@lemmy.world 2 days ago
fedora themed music starts playing
Do be do be do, bah
Do be do be do, bah
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It is worth mentioning that when the first stuffed sample of platypus was sent to Britain, the scientists thought it is a joke.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And some of those same scientists later organized a mass slaughter of thousands of platypuses in order to determine if the stories about them were true. Science, bitches!
enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
it all started from laughter to slaughter.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The UV light thing wasn’t discovered (or at least published) until 2020.
Phineas and Ferb ended in 2015.Opisek@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Valid reason to bring it back.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
They did bring it back lol
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And guess what color they fluoresce.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 2 days ago
No stomach? Hadn’t heard that one before
regnn@infosec.pub 2 days ago
If something is too weird, some of the oddities tend to get overlooked.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Bizarre beasts episode on this:
Chev@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I wonder how they process food.
theneverfox@pawb.social 1 day ago
Stomachs aren’t necessary… You can jump straight to the large intestine. Even humans can survive like that
Obviously, they’re useful. It’s another stage of digestion, which means more energy and nutrients are extracted from your food. It widens your viable food sources, just like chewing does
Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
They also don’t have nipples (though do have mammary glands) and mother platypuses basically sweat milk through their skin for the pups to collect off their fur
ramirezmike@programming.dev 2 days ago
what the fuck
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 2 days ago
The milk pools in grooves on the mother’s abdomen, allowing the young to lap it up.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You got an ancestor that did that too. Part of why platypuses are so damn weird is because mammalian ancestors kept facing evolutionary bottlenecks. Platypuses are more like proto mammals than us placentals
Tyfud@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Evolution was all like: Ok, so which mutations would you like to advance? The venomous thing? The aquatic thing? The electrocuting enemies thing? The no stomach hack? The “Fun at parties” hack?
Platypus: Yes.
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 2 days ago
An excellent example of spending your points all over the place and somehow ending up with an actually pretty broken build.
stangel@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Platypus have been around for over 110 million years. Nothing broken about that build!
Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
It’s like a Swiss army knife of biological features
fraksken@infosec.pub 2 days ago
After the platypus, evolution started looking into input validation.
MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And they sweat milk!
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
What the hell?
HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If I remember correctly, they don’t have mammalian glands and instead “sweat” thier milk for thier young.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 days ago
No stomach?! Does food go straight to the colon?
perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I went down this rathole.
They first grind up the bugs they eat in their mouths, then they have a chamber with bacteria which further reduce their food, then their intestines finish the job.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 days ago
Oh, is it like a gizard type of thing sort of?
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Thanks for doing so, did you figure out why they glow?
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 2 days ago
icedcoffee@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Ok who’s got pics of the glowing platypus?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 days ago
icedcoffee@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Hell yeah
cm0002@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Like the universe got lazy and hot the “Randomize for me” button instead LMAO
ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Will Wright took one look at this thing in an encyclopedia in 2001 and immediately started planning Spore.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Seeing living platypus is high on my bucket list, I’m still not convinced it’s not a hoax
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
You can just go see one at the zoo; they’re usually with the marsupials and chupacabras.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 2 days ago
🤔
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I thought you put capybara and just kinda thought you were also implying they were a pseudo SCP.
Sabata11792@ani.social 1 day ago
When you cheat and choose all the perks in the character creator.
Etterra@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Creationists: gOd WoRkS iN mYsTeRiOs WayS
No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Truly the “Kings Cup” of animals.
buzz86us@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And Dan Povenmire was the first to discover the florescence. People Perry the platypus was more scientifically accurate than you thought.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 days ago
And that’s the reason you can only find platypuses in Australia.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 days ago
You don’t see them though. The national park boards say “look for ripples in the water!”.
If you see ripples, you’re about to die.
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 day ago
If you see ripples, you’re about to die.
Yeah, but from which threat? Snake? Spider? Swimming kangaroo?
pturn1@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Well, if you live in Australia, you’re about to die… So many deadly things always just round the corner, or under the seat!
ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place 2 days ago
It’s a Pokémon. And so far, the only one with at least 4 types: water, poison, flying and electric. How the fuck can you even counter it?
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 2 days ago
Got a 2x weakness to electric and psychic or a 4x to smackdown>earthquake
Routhinator@startrek.website 2 days ago
It is the Avatar.
ElAndvari@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Oddly enough, there hasn’t been a true platypus Pokémon.
blackluster117@possumpat.io 2 days ago
It’s also adorable! Also, the babies are called platypups!
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
I’m curious now how a mammal develops in an external egg. The process seems so weird.
loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I think they might’ve diverged from therians (placentals+ marsupials) before their ancestors became viviparous.
troglodytis@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’d like to be, oooohhhh my favorite animal I want to be, oooohhhh my favorite animal I’d be a platypus, for you
sirico@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Bin parts build
Mandy@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Venomous? But…if not friend, why friend shaoed???
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Just the males, iirc.
They have venomous spurs in their hind feet used in chasing off other males.
Instigate@aussie.zone 2 days ago
And their venom HURTS. They’re not particularly deadly or anything but their venom will land you in the hospital or at least laid up in bed for a while. My stepmother grew up out in the bush in NSW the ‘70s and received one of the few recorded platypus envenomations and she described it as the most painful experience of her life. She said childbirth was a breeze compared to the platypus sting!
Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
They also have spikes in their hind legs that they use to deliver an extremely painful venom that can paralyze small animals.
jlow@beehaw.org 2 days ago
And somehow we haven’t driven it to extinction yet? That’s wild!
scytale@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Probably because no one has decided to eat it yet.
thefartographer@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I’m sure someone has. It probably tastes like popcorn or something
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 days ago
And it has natural eyeliner
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 days ago
I like how cats have thay too. Soo adorable.
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Glows under UV, AND is Fluorescent? Remarkable.
smeg@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Yeah that raised an eyebrow. For anyone whose eyebrows remained unraised, fluorescence is glowing under UV.
reinei@lemmy.world 2 days ago
May they said it “twice” because they actually fluoresce under green light as well?
/s
MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 2 days ago
Beaver-tailed you say? youtube.com/watch?v=P9FRxokO2so
perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Ze Frank is still making videos?
Mind blown, in a good way.
YungOnions@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
No stomach?!
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Platypussies*
Moah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
YES!! This is the content in here to see.
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
As a platypus lays eggs and produces milk, it’s the only animal that can make its own custard.
prex@aussie.zone 2 days ago
And echidnas.
I’m not sure if I’m and echidna custard or platypus custard kind of person.
pyre@lemmy.world 2 days ago
the new coke v pepsi
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Just be sure you don’t mention echidna custard in front of Ken Penders.
PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Echidnas have a four-headed penis. You’re welcome.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Dark.
Also. Where can I try some?
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
DM me your card details and I’ll send you a couple of pints from my platypus farm.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It can make it’s own breakfast
itsnotits@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Zink@programming.dev 2 days ago
A full English breakfast ain’t shit once you’ve had the full platypus breakfast!