@[email protected] to Science [email protected]English • 9 months ago"Guess the animal I'm thinking of! Clue: it's a type of bat"lemmy.worldmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up187
arrow-up187image"Guess the animal I'm thinking of! Clue: it's a type of bat"lemmy.world@[email protected] to Science [email protected]English • 9 months agomessage-square17fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•9 months agofun fact, bats are members of the Sctrotifera clade, along with some other mammals that have scrotums. Interestingly, primates are not members of this clade.
minus-square@leftzerolinkEnglish4•9 months agoWait, does that mean that we evolved our scrotums independently from other mammals…?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•9 months agoI think that’s exactly what that means. I’m not a biologist though.
fun fact, bats are members of the Sctrotifera clade, along with some other mammals that have scrotums. Interestingly, primates are not members of this clade.
Wait bats have scrotums??
Wait, does that mean that we evolved our scrotums independently from other mammals…?
I think that’s exactly what that means. I’m not a biologist though.