• stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    I saw a snail hunting a pack of elephants yesterday, the elephant was screaming something about him being immortal and if he touched him he would die.

  • MTK@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Wait until you hear about deadly toxin producing bacteria.

    You only need about 6 kg of Clostridium botulinum to produce enough toxins to kill all mammals on earth.

    Assumptions:

    • weight of a single bacterium is 1 picogram
    • a single bacterium produces 0.5 picograms of toxin
    • All mammals on earth are 1.4 gigatons of mass
    • a lethal dose is 150 nanograms per kg
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      17 days ago

      Genocide is evolutionary beneficial for the toxin producer, maybe there’s a ring of truth to it. Poison everything around you, free up resources for yourself.

  • ZeroHora@lemmy.ml
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    17 days ago

    Waste of points, could spent it into INT or HP. Fucking glass cannon species.

  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    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.

  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Kill? Why not paralyze or severely wound? Slow enough that you can kill with I don’t know a pointed stick, rock or gravity? Why make the venom do all the dirty work?

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