Ok who’s got pics of the glowing platypus?
Hell yeah
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.
An excellent example of spending your points all over the place and somehow ending up with an actually pretty broken build.
Platypus have been around for over 110 million years. Nothing broken about that build!
“broken build” here likely refers to the phrase as defined by gamers to function as synonymous to “overpowered”.
As in, “the build is so broken you can’t/it is difficult to play against it”. This phraseology could be used by either an ally or an enemy, but it contextually changes connotation from positive for allies to negative for enemies.
Build is often used as a shorthand for a character’s combination of items, skills, and levels (as the various games define it).
Thanks, I (mis-?) interpreted it as a gamers build that doesn’t work because they spread abilities rather than min-maxing.
So they were created about the same time as dinosaurs and flowers? Evolution was feeling really creative at that part of Cretaceous.
It’s like a Swiss army knife of biological features
After the platypus, evolution started looking into input validation.
And it has natural eyeliner
And somehow we haven’t driven it to extinction yet? That’s wild!
Probably because no one has decided to eat it yet.
I’m sure someone has. It probably tastes like popcorn or something
Venomous? But…if not friend, why friend shaoed???
Just the males, iirc.
They have venomous spurs in their hind feet used in chasing off other males.
Like the universe got lazy and hit the “Randomize for me” button instead LMAO
Will Wright took one look at this thing in an encyclopedia in 2001 and immediately started planning Spore.
Also well known for foiling evil plots while wearing a fedora.
And they sweat milk!
What the hell?
If I remember correctly, they don’t have mammalian glands and instead “sweat” thier milk for thier young.
*their x 2.
Creationists: gOd WoRkS iN mYsTeRiOs WayS
Truly the “Kings Cup” of animals.
The UV light thing wasn’t discovered (or at least published) until 2020.
Phineas and Ferb ended in 2015.Valid reason to bring it back.
They did bring it back lol
And guess what color they fluoresce.
Glows under UV, AND is Fluorescent? Remarkable.
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
what the fuck
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
Seeing living platypus is high on my bucket list, I’m still not convinced it’s not a hoax
You can just go see one at the zoo; they’re usually with the marsupials and chupacabras.
I thought you put capybara and just kinda thought you were also implying they were a pseudo SCP.
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I’d like to be, oooohhhh my favorite animal
I want to be, oooohhhh my favorite animal
I’d be a platypus, for you
And Dan Povenmire was the first to discover the florescence. People Perry the platypus was more scientifically accurate than you thought.
