Goings are slow but steady.


Venomous mammalian, egg laying, fluorescent, milk sweating wonders. So fucking weird.


The last common ancestor of monotremes like platypuses, marsupials like opossums, and placental mammals like flying squirrels lived about 150 million years ago, reports Gizmodo. Which begs the question, did fluorescence evolve in mammals before the three branches split apart? Or did these species all evolve the same solution to common challenges of living in the dark?

~https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/platypuses-glow-green-under-ultraviolet-light-180976196/