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@fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish • 9 months ago

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  • @icedcoffee@lemm.ee
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    30•8 months ago

    Ok who’s got pics of the glowing platypus?

    • @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      30•8 months ago

      • @icedcoffee@lemm.ee
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        5•8 months ago

        Hell yeah

  • @Tyfud@lemmy.world
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    deleted by creator

    • The Bard in GreenA
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      64•9 months 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
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        20•9 months ago

        Platypus have been around for over 110 million years. Nothing broken about that build!

        • @computergeek125@lemmy.world
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          43•9 months ago

          “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).

          • @stangel@lemmy.world
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            5•9 months ago

            Thanks, I (mis-?) interpreted it as a gamers build that doesn’t work because they spread abilities rather than min-maxing.

        • @Guilherme@lemm.ee
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          1•8 months ago

          So they were created about the same time as dinosaurs and flowers? Evolution was feeling really creative at that part of Cretaceous.

      • @Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        13•9 months ago

        It’s like a Swiss army knife of biological features

    • fraksken
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      16•8 months ago

      After the platypus, evolution started looking into input validation.

  • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    9•9 months ago

    And it has natural eyeliner

  • jlow (he/him)
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    10•9 months ago

    And somehow we haven’t driven it to extinction yet? That’s wild!

    • edric
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      6•9 months ago

      Probably because no one has decided to eat it yet.

      • @thefartographer@lemm.ee
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        5•9 months ago

        I’m sure someone has. It probably tastes like popcorn or something

  • @Mandy@sh.itjust.works
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    15•9 months ago

    Venomous? But…if not friend, why friend shaoed???

    • FuglyDuck
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      10•9 months ago

      Just the males, iirc.

      They have venomous spurs in their hind feet used in chasing off other males.

  • @cm0002@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Like the universe got lazy and hit the “Randomize for me” button instead LMAO

    • @ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      12•9 months ago

      Will Wright took one look at this thing in an encyclopedia in 2001 and immediately started planning Spore.

  • @Balthazar@lemmy.world
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    113•9 months ago

    Also well known for foiling evil plots while wearing a fedora.

  • @MrQuallzin@lemmy.world
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    70•9 months ago

    And they sweat milk!

    • @MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca
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      30•9 months ago

      What the hell?

      • @HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world
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        40•9 months ago

        If I remember correctly, they don’t have mammalian glands and instead “sweat” thier milk for thier young.

        • 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈
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          8•9 months ago

          *their x 2.

      • @jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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        5•9 months ago

        https://youtube.com/shorts/MYwgoGQBQXg

  • @Etterra@lemmy.world
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    21•9 months ago

    Creationists: gOd WoRkS iN mYsTeRiOs WayS

    • @No_Eponym@lemmy.ca
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      3•9 months ago

      Truly the “Kings Cup” of animals.

  • @JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world
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    66•9 months ago

    The UV light thing wasn’t discovered (or at least published) until 2020.
    Phineas and Ferb ended in 2015.

    • @Opisek@lemmy.world
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      15•9 months ago

      Valid reason to bring it back.

      • @JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world
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        7•8 months ago

        They did bring it back lol

    • @Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      6•8 months ago

      And guess what color they fluoresce.

  • @bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world
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    8•9 months ago

    Glows under UV, AND is Fluorescent? Remarkable.

  • @Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    72•9 months 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
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      35•9 months ago

      what the fuck

      • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        6•8 months 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

  • @Noodle07@lemmy.world
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    26•9 months ago

    Seeing living platypus is high on my bucket list, I’m still not convinced it’s not a hoax

    • @explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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      16•8 months ago

      You can just go see one at the zoo; they’re usually with the marsupials and chupacabras.

      • @vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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        2•8 months ago

        I thought you put capybara and just kinda thought you were also implying they were a pseudo SCP.

      • @Noodle07@lemmy.world
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        5•8 months ago

        🤔

  • @troglodytis@lemmy.world
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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

  • @buzz86us@lemmy.world
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    19•8 months ago

    And Dan Povenmire was the first to discover the florescence. People Perry the platypus was more scientifically accurate than you thought.

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