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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 65 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok who’s got pics of the glowing platypus?

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Valid reason to bring it back.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

They did bring it back lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

And guess what color they fluoresce.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Just like normal humans, then?

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure they're not with the pumas?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

What did I tell you about making up animals?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 128 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day 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

[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] [email protected] 97 points 2 days ago (4 children)

No stomach? Hadn't heard that one before

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 days ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

After the platypus, evolution started looking into input validation.

[–] [email protected] 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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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Creationists: gOd WoRkS iN mYsTeRiOs WayS

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

God was tripping balls that day

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Meme the change you wish to see in the world. :p

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