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[โ€“] roguetrick@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 5 days ago

Bacteria be like "You merely adopted the tetrodotoxin. I was born in it, molded by it..."