Plum@lemmy.worldM to Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoPacific Northwest tree octopusen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up1102arrow-down10
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minus-squareCrewman@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoI don’t know why this is a test for gullibility, this is entirely a thing that could exist! Nature’s weird and wonderful.
minus-squaredeft@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoNot really everything about an octopus would say this don’t mesh. I think they can definitely evolve to become something that climbs trees given the right circumstances but an octopus as is would just freeze over.
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days ago… arboreal creatures tend to have skeletons or at least exoskeletons. They also tend to not asphyxiate from being in a tree for 45 minutes. A jackalope is actually a much more plausible made up animal.
I don’t know why this is a test for gullibility, this is entirely a thing that could exist! Nature’s weird and wonderful.
Not really everything about an octopus would say this don’t mesh. I think they can definitely evolve to become something that climbs trees given the right circumstances but an octopus as is would just freeze over.
… arboreal creatures tend to have skeletons or at least exoskeletons.
They also tend to not asphyxiate from being in a tree for 45 minutes.
A jackalope is actually a much more plausible made up animal.