Everyone, especially fans of evolution, marine biology, and the Alien movies, and especially especially my brother, needs to go look at this page right now.
I heard the story on NPR yesterday, but the article and accompanying drawing and video was awesome. I wish our son was old enough to have seen the Alien movies, so he could appreciate the thoroughly terrifying awesomeness of this! And I bet there are some creatures out there with caustic (acid) blood, too. Why not? ;) The universe is a big place...
Like it's not bad enough to get bitten once by a moray, then they bite you a second time while they're still biting you the first time. I've seen those guys underwater and even though they are pretty mild-mannered, this makes them seem a little scarier.
Also, some fish have teeth on their tongues or growing out of the roofs of their mouths. The teeth of sharks are actually modified scales, not from bone tissue like other fish. And THEN, you have jawless fish like hagfish, that in order to tear off what they bite, will tie themselves into knots. The knot travels up their body until their head swings around and makes a tearing motion.
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That's amore? No.
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and an eel bites your knee,
dat's a moray...
and then bites off your ****s
with pharyngeal jaws
dat's a moray...
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Fish thread!
Also, some fish have teeth on their tongues or growing out of the roofs of their mouths. The teeth of sharks are actually modified scales, not from bone tissue like other fish. And THEN, you have jawless fish like hagfish, that in order to tear off what they bite, will tie themselves into knots. The knot travels up their body until their head swings around and makes a tearing motion.
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