blog c: funny animals

echidnas lay eggs, but have hair. i want one.

every armadillo brood is 4 offspring, all genetically identical.

mastodons have been shown to be similar to mammals. and t. rex have been shown to be kind of similar to chickens. bottom line is that we know a little sonething about mastodons and t. rexes, which is very tentative but also incredibly cool.

platypi have five sex chromosomes, effectively males are X1Y1X2Y2X3Y3X4Y4X5Y5. humans and most other mammals are just plain XY.

28 weeks later just came out. i really enjoyed 28 days later. it was part of one really great day of movie-trekking around ames. on that day i also saw confidence, which was very clever, narc, which was as expected, the ring, which was good but too extreme, and road to perdition, which i was too worn out to enjoy.