This became a Today I Learned… I always thought this was a too weird to be true fact. I learned in biology that all living things have to produce waste, so that makes sense.
That is a thing, but it’s usually a short lived stage after a metamorphosis to mate or do something, if it’s less than a month the strategy works. Not having an anus and stuff means you can not grow that organ and make something else instead or have a shorter growth period.
This became a Today I Learned… I always thought this was a too weird to be true fact. I learned in biology that all living things have to produce waste, so that makes sense.
Some microscopic animals don’t have anuses, but that’s because they have one dual purpose orifice that handles food in both directions.
cool
That is a thing, but it’s usually a short lived stage after a metamorphosis to mate or do something, if it’s less than a month the strategy works. Not having an anus and stuff means you can not grow that organ and make something else instead or have a shorter growth period.