• ZeroCool@slrpnk.netOP
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      8 months ago

      What about the platypus?

      Platypus babies only drink Bundaberg Ginger Beer. Also, they’re not amphibians.

    • thefartographer@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      Amphibian and semi-aquatic aren’t the same thing. Frogs are amphibians because they start as gilled tadpoles and turn into hoppy lungy frogs. Turtles are not amphibians because they hatch as a turtle, live as a turtle, and die as a turtle. It’s turtles all the way down.

    • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com
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      8 months ago

      Platipy, like echidnas, are monotremes; “primitive”, egg-laying mammals.

      Caecilians are amphibians, like frogs and salamanders. Whole different clade.