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TIL newborn opossums are the size of a dime (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I knew they were tiny because they are marsupials, but not that tiny. Squee!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)

So I guess the marsupial pouch is really like an external womb, because that would be a fetus of any other mammal. Nature is crazy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Yes, that’s it! They climb in there, swallow the nipple and continue to “bake in the oven.”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sugar Gliders are tiny, they look similar in size to larva last time I saw them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

(not mine this is just a picture from online. I would never recommend doing this, they likely killed it because they navigate with limited senses to travel to the nipple)

[–] Willy 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So is it just like full of shit when they are coming out?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Yeah, that’s an excellent question. It doesn’t sound like the cleanest operation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

And they probably have a nice proper fourth trimester too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

For anyone else who had no idea how marsupial fetus-babies climbed from vagina to pouch: link

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Fuck knows how that evolved.