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Platypus Anatomy Just Got Weirder
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solo piefed.social solo@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-07
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Link: https://nautil.us/platypus-anatomy-just-got-weirder-1279056

These egg-laying oddities are more birdlike than previously thought
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actionjbone sh.itjust.works actionjbone@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-09-12
#2 · (edited) Quote Reply

No it didn't. They've been that way for as long as we've known about their existence. We just didn't know this detail.
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solo piefed.social solo@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-07
#3 · (edited) Quote Reply
actionjbone wrote:
No it didn't. They've been that way for as long as we've known about their existence. We just didn't know this detail.

I suppse this is a fair point, but I do have a slight objection to your statement. It's not possible that they have always been this way. They are creatures that evolve, just like all living beings.

(Now that I think about it, even non-living stuff change through time)
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crandlecan mander.xyz crandlecan@mander.xyz
Joined: 2023-10-01
#4 · Quote Reply
actionjbone wrote:
No it didn't. They've been that way for as long as we've known about their existence. We just didn't know this detail.

... got weirder (to us).

It's how language works. Some words are silent.
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actionjbone sh.itjust.works actionjbone@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-09-12
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solo wrote:
I suppse this is a fair point, but I do have a slight objection to your statement. It's not possible that they have always been this way. They are creatures that evolve, just like all living beings. (Now that I think about it, even non-living stuff change through time)

You are technically correct. I have updated the language of my post.
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actionjbone sh.itjust.works actionjbone@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-09-12
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crandlecan wrote:
... got weirder (to us). It's how language works. Some words are silent.

What do mean, some are?
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ragica lemmy.ml ragica@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2021-03-14
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"Biologists from Ghent University in Belgium looked at platypus melanosomes—specialized pigment-bearing organelles inside cells—under an electron microscope. To their surprise, they discovered that the melanosomes were hollow and spherical. Previously, only birds were thought to possess hollow melanosomes, which produce more vibrant iridescent colors in their plumage."
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