• medgremlin@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Trees being mammals is just an illustration of the failures of morphological taxonomy. By some scientific definitions, one can reasonably argue that coconuts are mammals. Also wtf is up with echidnas and platypuses? And don’t even get me started on carcinization. It’s crabs all the way down.