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Bodily waste is cool, actually

Snot bubbles may help a short-beaked echidna cool off by coating the critter’s nose with moisture, which evaporates and draws heat from a blood-filled sinus, helping to cool the blood, Elise Cutts reported in “Adorable spike-balls beat the heat with snot bubbles” (SN: 2/11/23, p.