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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Recently went down the rabbit hole (ok, I'm lying, I just read a Wikipedia article and one scientific study), and found out that the venomousness of the platypus has crazy implications for mammal evolution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venomous_mammal
(The monotremes are the platypus and the echidna, which unlike the platypus isn't venomous but still has the spurs.)