Pee through mouth ? IP and Sh*t Fun Chew (Turtles all the way down)

Capt'n Midnight · 13-10-2012 8:00am #1

The story that has it all
funny names
turtles
and a new superpower

and what were those turtles thinking "hey lads I've figured out how we can breath underwater, there's just one catch ..."

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22365-zoologger-the-turtle-that-urinates-through-its-mouth.html

When the Chinese soft-shelled turtle needs to urinate, its approach is a little different. It goes in search of a puddle, and dunks its head under the surface.

That's because the Chinese soft-shelled turtle is unique in the animal kingdom: it urinates through its mouth.
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The linings of their mouths are covered with tiny, finger-shaped protrusions, discovered in the late 19th century. It turned out that they allow the turtles to breathe underwater: they increase the surface area of the mouth over which oxygen and carbon dioxide can be exchanged. The turtles can also take in other chemicals, such as sodium, through the protrusions.

But that's only part of the story, according to Alex Yuen Kwong Ip [ LOL I Pee] of the National University of Singapore. He thinks the turtles only started breathing underwater to make it easier to urinate through their mouths.

Working with Shít Fun Chew of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore,

so many questions

what were Dr Chew's parents thinking ?
how does someone called IP get involved in urine research ?
and what is that awful taste ?

So if you were giving out superpowers with downsides what would they be ?