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Oh neat, now I know Penis Worms have purple blood. And that Penis Worms exist.

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My exact thoughts. Penis worm? Time to look up how to actively avoid getting any penis worms.

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Interesting tidbit: from left to right, these are ordered by the efficiency of the oxygen transportation, highest to lowest.

Blue blood may be cool, but red blood is better for you.

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I guess I could google it but for the sake of the comment section is that from highest to lowest or the other way around?

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Highest to lowest. I edited it into the comment.

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Blue blood may be cool, but red blood is better for you.

=> Nobility is fashionable, but it’s healthier to be a peasant.

Also, from this table I learn that Europeans of ages past were ruled by octopodes.

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Chlorocruorin is really confusingly named. I was trying and failing to find the chlorine in it and was wondering if I was just dumb or blind or what.

khloros is Greek for “green”. That’s also where chlorine gets its name. So they’re only related etymologically.

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Amazing that Vulcans aren’t mentioned on this list. And on a more serious note: humanoids with green blood are apparently not that impossible!

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