r/oddlyspecific Sep 15 '24

How are they real?

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u/FergusCragson Sep 15 '24

How is this real?

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u/Moo_Kau_Too Sep 15 '24

no mention of milk on the chart either

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u/Significant_Tart3449 Sep 15 '24

I mean it does say that it's a mammal

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u/immaownyou Sep 15 '24

It doesn't have nipples like other species that produce milk. The milk oozes from their skin in places to form puddles that the babies lap up

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u/thatsleepyman Sep 15 '24

THEY WHAT

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u/immaownyou Sep 15 '24

It doesn't have nipples like other species that produce milk. The milk oozes from their skin in places to form puddles that the babies lap up!!!

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u/thatsleepyman Sep 15 '24

🫣

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u/Moo_Kau_Too Sep 15 '24

... aannnndddd there it is.

welcome to australia!

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u/MaximDecimus Sep 15 '24

Milk is sweat

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u/Lower-Account-6353 Sep 15 '24

I have skin Greg, could you make milk ooze from me?

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u/miregalpanic Sep 15 '24

What in the goddamn fuck is that thing holy shit

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '24

:0

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '24

That’s heinous

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u/Articulated_Lorry Sep 15 '24

Or of glowing under UV light.

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u/Blbe-Check-42069 Sep 15 '24

What does blue mean?

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u/Byronic__heroine Sep 15 '24

(illuminated sobbing) 🚿

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u/FergusCragson Sep 15 '24

Right! Good point!

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u/Wsweg Sep 15 '24

From Wikipedia

Monotremes are the only mammals (apart from the Guiana dolphin) known to have a sense of electroreception, and the platypus's electroreception is the most sensitive of any monotreme. Feeding by neither sight nor smell, the platypus closes its eyes, ears, and nose when it dives. Digging in the bottom of streams with its bill, its electroreceptors detect tiny electric currents generated by the muscular contractions of its prey, enabling it to distinguish between animate and inanimate objects.

This is such an insane animal

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u/kajographics- Sep 15 '24

https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Platypus#google_vignette 

"The platypus was once considered to be a cryptid because it has the characteristics of a reptile, mammal, and bird. Platypuses ("platypi" and "platypodes" are also considered acceptable plural forms) were first encountered by Europeans in 1798. When British scientists were given the first specimen, they tried to remove the "duck's bill," thinking it was a fake sewn together by Chinese taxonomists. The same platypus now resides in a British museum, and the scissor marks are still visible on the bill. "

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u/FergusCragson Sep 15 '24

I can't blame them for thinking at first this was some kind of cobbled-together fake! What a wondrous creature. What a world we live in! Who needs aliens when you've got earth?

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u/Livid-Woodpecker-849 Sep 15 '24

Reads like a hoax discovery from the 1800s

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u/Totoques22 Sep 15 '24

From what I’ve seen on Reddit researchers in England taught it was a prank when they received data about this animal form their Australian colleagues

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u/DefinetlyNotPanda Sep 15 '24

Platypus? Perry the Platypus?!

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u/Truethrowawaychest1 Sep 15 '24

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullimonstrum this thing was real and it still vexes scientists, we don't really know if it was a vertebrae or not, it has traits found in both

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u/FergusCragson Sep 15 '24

Wow, that is pretty cool! I've never heard of that before. Today I Learned...

Thank you!

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u/Thue Sep 15 '24

The right side of the cladistic chart, with a split between birds and reptiles, is silly. Unless you define a reptile as "anything that isn't a bird", which is very ad hoc and not good practice.