• Technus@lemmy.zip
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    3 hours 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.

  • neidu2@feddit.nl
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    edit-2
    3 hours 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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      4 hours 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?

    • root@lemmy.zip
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      7 hours ago

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

  • Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nl
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    5 hours 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 [he/him]
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    5 hours ago

    Rich "blue blooded" failsons are spiders! Called it! porky-spider