• root@lemmy.zip
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      14 days ago

      My exact thoughts. Penis worm? Time to look up how to actively avoid getting any penis worms.

  • neidu2@feddit.nl
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    14 days ago

    Interesting tidbit: from left to right, these are ordered by the efficiency of the oxygen transportation, highest to lowest.

    Blue blood may be cool, but red blood is better for you.

    • Cenotaph@mander.xyz
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      14 days ago

      I guess I could google it but for the sake of the comment section is that from highest to lowest or the other way around?

    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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      14 days ago

      Blue blood may be cool, but red blood is better for you.

      => Nobility is fashionable, but it's healthier to be a peasant.

      Also, from this table I learn that Europeans of ages past were ruled by octopodes.

  • Technus@lemmy.zip
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    14 days ago

    Chlorocruorin is really confusingly named. I was trying and failing to find the chlorine in it and was wondering if I was just dumb or blind or what.

    khloros is Greek for "green". That's also where chlorine gets its name. So they're only related etymologically.

  • Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nl
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    14 days ago

    Amazing that Vulcans aren’t mentioned on this list. And on a more serious note: humanoids with green blood are apparently not that impossible!

  • UlyssesT
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    6 days ago

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