No scients teatcher would say that
venomous
Submitted 1 week ago by Deceptichum@quokk.au to science_memes@mander.xyz
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glimse@lemmy.world 1 week ago
scintilla@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I have some depressing news for you about southern education.
(for clarification I know some schools are good but most are not. My middle school state history teacher said that slaves in my state had it good; because we were unique in having laws about how hard you can beat slaves. Which is untrue and also they were not enforced for obvious reasons.)
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Creationist ones might
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 1 week ago
English teachers: 😢
ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
They all are so cute I want to hug them
CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
That’s the most evil looking platypus I’ve ever seen. Maybe the only not cure picture that exists.
neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
TIL mammals can lay eggs.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
All mammals lay eggs. Most of them just lay eggs inside themselves.
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If you’re gonna be anal about it, technically “laying” could be argued to be inaccurate, (although then you’d get into the semantics about how it’s technically referring to careful putting down, and I don’t know if you could argue that for like, pigeons), but I’d definitely agree that all mammals have eggs.
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Recently went down the rabbit hole (ok, I’m lying, I just read a Wikipedia article and one scientific study), and the venomousness of the platypus has crazy implications for mammal evolution:
It is thought to be an ancient mammalian characteristic, as many non-monotreme archaic mammal groups also possess venomous spurs.
(The monotremes are the platypus and the echinda, which unlike the platypus isn’t venomous but still has the spurs.)
Goretantath@lemm.ee 1 week ago
"teat"cher… well they ARE mammals?
lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Awww
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Wait, the Slow Loris and shrew are venomous???
Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Finally a legit reason too post a sign about speleodontidae: youtu.be/m6xwePOoan8
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Show loris(big eyes), African crested rat(spiky hair), Cuban solenodon(shrew like thing), and of course the platypus.
etchinghillside@reddthat.com 1 week ago
I was only aware of a platypus. Is it all administered through some barb like appendage on the legs? Which one shoots venom missiles?
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
The loris and the solenodon have toxic saliva. The rat is controversial as it slathers chewed up poison dart tree on itself so hairs absorb it but it doesn’t produce venom/poison itself. Not sure of any “venom missiles” from mammals.