Started by Frida Nyström (@frida_forages) ·
the platypus is ridiculous
Lays eggs, males are venomous, hunts with its eyes closed by sensing electric fields, no stomach, and glows blue-green under UV light. When the first specimen reached Britain people thought it was a fake.
5 sources · 21 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “platypus facts”
- Ended at
- Biofluorescence
The Trail
- “platypus facts” (google.com)
- Platypus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Monotreme (en.wikipedia.org)
- Electroreception and electrogenesis (en.wikipedia.org)
- Biofluorescence (en.wikipedia.org)
they glow under UV. why
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