Remember when I showed you a picture of the sea lamprey? AND YOU TOTALLY FREAKED OUT?? And you tried to forget it—but couldn’t? Well, sometimes the best way to forget a horrifying image is to replace it with another one… such as… THIS FISH WITH ROWS OF HUMAN TEETH GAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!
- Courtesy VA Institute of Marine Science
According to The Scientific American, this fish is called a “Sheepshead” and uses its many teeth to eat everything in the world—which I assume also means my face.
A fully-grown adult sheepshead will have well-defined incisors sitting at the front of the jaw, and molars set in three rows in the upper jaw and two rows in the lower jaw. It has strong, heavy grinders set in the rear of the jaw too, which are particularly important for crushing the shells of its prey. As with humans, this unique combination of teeth helps the sheepshead process a wide-ranging, omnivorous diet consisting of a variety of vertebrates, invertebrates and some plant material.
In addition… GAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!
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Oh wow! That is so fascinating. Except that we all saw it on Salon yesterday.
http://www.salon.com/2013/03/21/this_sheep…
There is a fluoride in the water joke here somewhere. I feel it.
I am fascinated by the sort of personality that feels it is absolutely vital that everybody knows they’ve learned something before somebody else. Like it’s a contest.
Slow down, #. Go outside. Pet a doggy. It’ll be okay.
Thank you Spaceman. I feel better now.
But I think you missed the point.
No matter. You can feel satisfied in your humble self-aggrendizing.
WILL DO, CAPTAIN.
Potentially toxic as well. Ah nature
Spaceman, it’s probably the type of person who thinks that since they saw something, then EVERYONE has seen that thing. Like, the type of person who think they’re the center of the universe and doesn’t realize that other people experience different things.
And on top of that, GAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!