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[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 38 points 6 days ago (3 children)

BEHOLD! THE MAMMAL! IT GIVES MILK AND HAS HAIR!

(And has venomous claws, lays eggs, has electroreceptors, glows under UV, has 10 sex chromosomes, genetically it’s a mix of reptiles and mammals…)

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 3 days ago

It's one of twoish (one species of platypus, three of echidnas) mammals on its order (the other order which has all the more normal mammals — placental mammals) it's so different to the other mammals that really all monotremes have in common with placentals is hair and milk

[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

sounds like average republican

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Please do not insult the platypus like that!

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

but what if platypus is republican?

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] BilSabab@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

i'm just sayin'. there are possibilities. you know the climate change, chemtrails - things get weird))

[–] TheThrillOfTime@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Proof that God is fucking with us

[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I tell you it’s just an Echidna that made love to a Lizard and that’s how we got the Platypus.

[–] TomArrr@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Was the duck an innocent bystander or willing participant?

[–] tlmcleod@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

Videographer that accidentally mixed his genetic juice with the copulating couple