It is worth mentioning that when the first stuffed sample of platypus was sent to Britain, the scientists thought it is a joke.
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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!
it all started from laughter to slaughter.
When you cheat and choose all the perks in the character creator.
Ok who’s got pics of the glowing platypus?
Hell yeah
As a platypus lays eggs and produces milk, it’s the only animal that can make its own custard.
And echidnas.
I'm not sure if I'm and echidna custard or platypus custard kind of person.
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Dark.
Also. Where can I try some?
DM me your card details and I’ll send you a couple of pints from my platypus farm.
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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
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Also well known for foiling evil plots while wearing a fedora.
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.
Sure they're not with the pumas?
What did I tell you about making up animals?
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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
The milk pools in grooves on the mother's abdomen, allowing the young to lap it up.
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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
And Dan Povenmire was the first to discover the florescence. People Perry the platypus was more scientifically accurate than you thought.
No stomach? Hadn't heard that one before
If something is too weird, some of the oddities tend to get overlooked.
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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.
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After the platypus, evolution started looking into input validation.
No stomach?! Does food go straight to the colon?
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
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/
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Creationists: gOd WoRkS iN mYsTeRiOs WayS
God was tripping balls that day
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Like the universe got lazy and hit the "Randomize for me" button instead LMAO
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