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.
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.
Some microscopic animals don’t have anuses, but that’s because they have one dual purpose orifice that handles food in both directions.
cool