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[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 19 points 1 day ago

When you cheat and choose all the perks in the character creator.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is worth mentioning that when the first stuffed sample of platypus was sent to Britain, the scientists thought it is a joke.

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!

[–] icedcoffee@lemm.ee 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok who’s got pics of the glowing platypus?

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 81 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Valid reason to bring it back.

They did bring it back lol

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

And guess what color they fluoresce.

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 196 points 2 days ago (14 children)

As a platypus lays eggs and produces milk, it’s the only animal that can make its own custard.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 86 points 2 days ago (3 children)

And echidnas.

I'm not sure if I'm and echidna custard or platypus custard kind of person.

[–] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Echidnas have a four-headed penis. You're welcome.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Just like normal humans, then?

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[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure they're not with the pumas?

[–] sudoshakes@reddthat.com 7 points 1 day ago

What did I tell you about making up animals?

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

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[–] buzz86us@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Balthazar@lemmy.world 128 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 47 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 84 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 41 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The milk pools in grooves on the mother's abdomen, allowing the young to lap it up.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day 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

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 50 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No stomach?! Does food go straight to the colon?

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 48 points 2 days ago

Yes, platypuses lost their stomach during evolution, so they basically grind food using gravel and their beak before sending it to the intestine, which has taken on some of the functions performed by stomachs in other animals. Source

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 70 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

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.

ETA, since you all are such curious cats:

https://wildlifefaq.com/platypus-stomach/

and

https://platypus.asn.au/platypus-myths/

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[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 97 points 2 days ago (4 children)

No stomach? Hadn't heard that one before

[–] regnn@infosec.pub 59 points 2 days ago

If something is too weird, some of the oddities tend to get overlooked.

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[–] Tyfud@lemmy.world 84 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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 77 points 2 days ago (6 children)

An excellent example of spending your points all over the place and somehow ending up with an actually pretty broken build.

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[–] fraksken@infosec.pub 16 points 1 day ago

After the platypus, evolution started looking into input validation.

[–] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 85 points 2 days ago (12 children)
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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Creationists: gOd WoRkS iN mYsTeRiOs WayS

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

God was tripping balls that day

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] feebl@feddit.nl 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wish we could go back to that era of memes.

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

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