As If the Platypus Couldn’t Get Any Weirder

[rangerrebew]

As If the Platypus Couldn’t Get Any Weirder
 
George Dvorsky
Friday 12:30PM
 

The platypus is nature’s crazy quilt, as this strange creature looks like about a half-dozen different animals all rolled into one. Turns out that platypuses were hiding yet another conspicuous feature: THEY CAN FREAKIN’ GLOW IN THE DARK.

It’s not enough to be a mammal who lays eggs, sports a duck-like bill and webbed feet, hunts using electroreception, and wields venomous spurs. The platypus also glows green under ultraviolet light. Because of course it does. Details of this unexpected discovery were published earlier this month in the science journal Mammalia.

https://gizmodo.com/as-if-the-platypus-couldn-t-get-any-weirder-1845529134?utm_source=pocket-newtab

[catfish1957]

As If the Platypus Couldn’t Get Any Weirder
 
George Dvorsky
Friday 12:30PM
 

The platypus is nature’s crazy quilt, as this strange creature looks like about a half-dozen different animals all rolled into one. Turns out that platypuses were hiding yet another conspicuous feature: THEY CAN FREAKIN’ GLOW IN THE DARK.

It’s not enough to be a mammal who lays eggs, sports a duck-like bill and webbed feet, hunts using electroreception, and wields venomous spurs. The platypus also glows green under ultraviolet light. Because of course it does. Details of this unexpected discovery were published earlier this month in the science journal Mammalia.

https://gizmodo.com/as-if-the-platypus-couldn-t-get-any-weirder-1845529134?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Surprising in that the probable 300 years this creature has been known, they are only now finding that out.  Reminds me of a useful camping tip....   Take a small portable battery operated black light with you.  Will let you clear out the scorpions......

[Gefn]

Percy!!!!