Show ContentLive Your Lives@lemmy.world8·1 year agoOctopuses have beaks. Are beaks considered part of a skeleton?
Show ContentMrPommeroy@lemmy.world7·1 year agoAfaik beaks are more like nails, hoofs and antlers in composition.
Show ContentBizzle@lemmy.worldEnglish3·1 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
Show Contentjaybone@lemmy.world1·1 year agoI could swear some movie or video game taught me re-animated deer skeletons can have antlers.
Show Contentsmeg@feddit.ukEnglish4·1 year agoTechnically they’re all “correct”, just that octopodes is the most correct and coolest sounding
So the ultimate counter to skeletons are octopuses.
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