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minus-squareLive Your Lives@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-21 year agoOctopuses have beaks. Are beaks considered part of a skeleton?
minus-squareMrPommeroy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoAfaik beaks are more like nails, hoofs and antlers in composition.
minus-squareBizzle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoNails, hooves, and rhino horn are all made of keratin; antlers are a little more complicated: https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/news-posts/horns-and-antlers-what-s-the-difference
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI could swear some movie or video game taught me re-animated deer skeletons can have antlers.
minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoIn video game logic it needs antlers to be a deer.
minus-squaresmeg@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21 year agoTechnically they’re all “correct”, just that octopodes is the most correct and coolest sounding
Octopuses have beaks. Are beaks considered part of a skeleton?
Afaik beaks are more like nails, hoofs and antlers in composition.
Nails, hooves, and rhino horn are all made of keratin; antlers are a little more complicated: https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/news-posts/horns-and-antlers-what-s-the-difference
I could swear some movie or video game taught me re-animated deer skeletons can have antlers.
In video game logic it needs antlers to be a deer.
Isn’t the proper plural term octopi?
Octopodes, actually.
Technically they’re all “correct”, just that octopodes is the most correct and coolest sounding