venomous
venomous
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No scients teatcher would say that
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I have some depressing news for you about southern education.
(for clarification I know some schools are good but most are not. My middle school state history teacher said that slaves in my state had it good; because we were unique in having laws about how hard you can beat slaves. Which is untrue and also they were not enforced for obvious reasons.)
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Creationist ones might
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English teachers: 😢
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They all are so cute I want to hug them
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TIL mammals can lay eggs.
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All mammals lay eggs. Most of them just lay eggs inside themselves.
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If you're gonna be anal about it, technically "laying" could be argued to be inaccurate, (although then you'd get into the semantics about how it's technically referring to careful putting down, and I don't know if you could argue that for like, pigeons), but I'd definitely agree that all mammals have eggs.
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Recently went down the rabbit hole (ok, I'm lying, I just read a Wikipedia article and one scientific study), and found out that the venomousness of the platypus has crazy implications for mammal evolution:
In spite of the rarity of venom among extant mammals, venom may be an ancestral feature among mammals, as venomous spurs akin to those of the modern platypus are found in most non-therian Mammaliaformes groups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venomous_mammal
(The monotremes are the platypus and the echidna, which unlike the platypus isn't venomous but still has the spurs.)
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That’s the most evil looking platypus I’ve ever seen. Maybe the only not cute picture that exists.
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"teat"cher.. well they ARE mammals?
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Awww
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Wait, the Slow Loris and shrew are venomous???
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Finally a legit reason to post a song about solendontidae: https://youtu.be/m6xwePOoan8
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Show loris(big eyes), African crested rat(spiky hair), Cuban solenodon(shrew like thing), and of course the platypus.
I was only aware of a platypus. Is it all administered through some barb like appendage on the legs? Which one shoots venom missiles?
The loris and the solenodon have toxic saliva. The rat is controversial as it slathers chewed up poison dart tree on itself so hairs absorb it but it doesn't produce venom/poison itself. Not sure of any "venom missiles" from mammals.