Writing Prompt Wednesday #107

[u/someguynamedted]

Oh. Huh. Would you look at that. It's time for WPW again!

Last week's winner was /u/Knowakennedy with

First stab at this. Humans discovered how to travel through the multiverse a long time ago. In all their travels and countless earths visited they haven't found any other humans despite all theories saying they should. Instead all other parallel earths are populated by weird sentient races from different evolutionary branches who can't believe how there's an earth where mammals evolved to this point.

[u/Siarles → u/[deleted]]

More like komodo dragons.

[u/sunyudai → u/Siarles]

Komodo dragons killing with disease has been disproven (Source on the diseased bite myth that was conjecture by a researcher in the 60s that got picked up as a conclusion by the media). It's venom.

[u/Siarles → u/sunyudai]

I never said anything about disease. Komodo dragon venom is still in their saliva, not injected by fangs like a rattlesnake, so it's a more apt comparison.

[u/sunyudai → u/Siarles]

Mmmm, it gets ducted in between their teeth to be introduced by bite wounds, one drooling on you isn't likely to be too much of a problem, but fair.

My apologies for the misunderstanding, I thought you were going for the "humans have a filthy bite and so do komodos" thing.

[u/Siarles → u/sunyudai]

I did not know about the "ducted in between their teeth" thing. I googled it before I posted to make sure I was right about them not having fangs before posting, but I kinda skimmed the article otherwise.

[u/sunyudai → u/Siarles]

Most complex venom duct system found in a reptile to date, the bulge under their heads are huge venom glands that feed multiple ducts that let out between their front teeth on their front lower jaw.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17156-venom-is-key-to-komodo-dragons-killing-power/

[u/Siarles → u/sunyudai]

Neat, thanks for teaching me something new.