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[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh neat, now I know Penis Worms have purple blood. And that Penis Worms exist.

[–] sudoroot@lemmy.zip 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My exact thoughts. Penis worm? Time to look up how to actively avoid getting any penis worms.

[–] I_am_10_squirrels 3 points 3 weeks ago

Don't dip your oar in Lake Katchakootie

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Interesting tidbit: from left to right, these are ordered by the efficiency of the oxygen transportation, highest to lowest.

Blue blood may be cool, but red blood is better for you.

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago

Blue blood may be cool, but red blood is better for you.

=> Nobility is fashionable, but it's healthier to be a peasant.

Also, from this table I learn that Europeans of ages past were ruled by octopodes.

[–] Cenotaph@mander.xyz 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I guess I could google it but for the sake of the comment section is that from highest to lowest or the other way around?

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 4 points 3 weeks ago

Highest to lowest. I edited it into the comment.

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 22 points 3 weeks ago

Knew about Haemoglobin and Haemocyanin, but never heard of the other two before. Very interesting.

Also, RIP Penis worms. Got a terrible name and have low efficiency oxygen transport.

[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I remember one of my sister's teachers were saying that human blood is blue when inside your body. "Just look at your veins!"

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 20 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah one of the great lies we were all taught.

[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 weeks ago

Chlorocruorin is really confusingly named. I was trying and failing to find the chlorine in it and was wondering if I was just dumb or blind or what.

khloros is Greek for "green". That's also where chlorine gets its name. So they're only related etymologically.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This is yet another trick to make us look at penis worms :P

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

Well "hey baby wanna look at something purple and full of blood" hasn't worked for me yet

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago

This is clearly propaganda by Big Penis.

[–] vizconde 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] vizconde 7 points 3 weeks ago

interesting to know there's purple blood, though! I didn't know that

[–] lambdabeta@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago

Whenever I see this image I always wonder 2 things:

  1. What makes hemoglobin more efficient?
  2. Why do we even need these fancy molecules to transport oxygen? Can't we produce some kind of biological ampule that holds some pure O2 for consumption by the various processes that need it? We have dedicated organelle structures for similar tasks (i.e. mitochondria)
[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Many of the comments being "penis worms!", but no one is asking about that Red blood is only in the "majority of vertebrates" leaves me wondering which vertebrates have what other colour(s) of blood.

Edit: I have been told that it's "Crocodile Icefish" (10 species of) and colourless.

Thanks, @Marcos@discuss.technics.de

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 8 points 3 weeks ago

Amazing that Vulcans aren’t mentioned on this list. And on a more serious note: humanoids with green blood are apparently not that impossible!

[–] superkret@feddit.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

Guys, the blood that's coming out of my penis worm is red.
Should I be worried?

[–] luciole 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Haha they’re called like that because of their shape right? Right?

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Whoever named the penis worm hit the nail on the head.

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 3 points 3 weeks ago

I see what you did there

[–] Ma10gan@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago
  • obligatory Homestuck mention *
[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Red, the blood of angry men

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

Black, the dark of ages past.