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Tan Eggs

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"When I'm a small prey mammal and I've evolved to survive the barren rocky landscape by optimizing into a tan egg"

For posts about animals that loosely fit the description above. While the animal does not have to hit all the requirements, it should hit some of them:

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Does dwarf planet Haumea, which I would argue hits both habitat and appearance criteria, count? ๐Ÿ˜Š (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago by ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works to c/taneggs@lemmy.ca
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ID: image of a tan, egg shaped dwarf planet

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[โ€“] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if it has to do with it's elliptical orbit too.

[โ€“] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I think they concluded it had survived a massive impact in its early(er) life which accounts for its spin, shape, orbit, and tiny moons.

I just realised that the link to wiki I put in OP disappeared in to the void, if you wanna have a read from a more reliable source lol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haumea

[โ€“] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Thanks! Can a planet of that shape hold an atmosphere?

[โ€“] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

No, but not directly because of its shape. It's more that any planet with enough mass to hang on to an atmosphere will also be massive enough to squish itself into a sphere.

[โ€“] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I'm not sure. It does have a ring though!