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Are you serious? They really have what amounts to an exoskeleton? Or maybe it’s more accurate to call it a whole-body rib cage?
Just searched and found this fun article. Not really a skeleton but a collection of really stiff hairs or feathers (loosely: the genes are the same ones responsible for “other skin appendages” in vertebrates).
So you’re saying all my skin tags are just puffer fish thorns?!
Amazing…
Do they scare away predators also?
Only if you inflate yourself.
It’s made of caltrops!
I wonder if you can go like
gotta find the hidden button
Naturally sourced caltrops
Nature is so brilliant!
Is this what people mean when they say they are “big boned”
Seeing this first thing in the morning like
Hahaha a living bucky ball. I didn’t know I needed to see this.
