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minus-square✺roguetrick✺linkfedilinkEnglish13•edit-22 months agoBlue ringed octopus is just using tetrodotoxin though, it’s not like they developed that toxin through evolution. Bacteria are the ones that made TTX so toxic. I’m not impressed.
minus-square@algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglish10•2 months agoBacteria be like “You merely adopted the tetrodotoxin. I was born in it, molded by it…”
Blue ringed octopus is just using tetrodotoxin though, it’s not like they developed that toxin through evolution. Bacteria are the ones that made TTX so toxic. I’m not impressed.
Bacteria be like “You merely adopted the tetrodotoxin. I was born in it, molded by it…”