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Let me guess by the title... a super common Sparidae? Yep, nothing strange them. Every marine biologist, alive or past, know that sea breams that eat mainly sh
by pvaldes 5y ago
Let me guess by the title... a super common Sparidae?
Yep, nothing strange them. Every marine biologist, alive or past, know that sea breams that eat mainly shells have this set of teeth to tear and crush.
A much more interesting trivia is that this animal is hermaphrodyte so the journalists have lost their only chance to write something like 'mutating bisexual fish with human teeth and wearing a prison uniform, discovered'.
- brailsafe 5y agoThis strikes me as an awfully cynical take. Most people aren't marine biologists it turns out.
- david-gpu 5y ago> this animal is hermaphrodyte so the journalists have lost their only chance to write something like 'mutating bisexual fish I've heard bisexuality defined as sexual attraction towards both males and females. If your species is hermaphrodite, you arguably cannot be bisexual because there are neither males not females to be attracted to.
- chansiky 5y ago> that eat mainly shells have this set of teeth to tear and crush I was thinking when I saw the images that there must be some sort of convergent evolution going on. I would love to know what the similarities in our mastication patterns are with these fish. I wonder if our purported history with consuming bone marrow have anything to do with this similarity?
- pvaldes 5y agoThe entire family is like a bunch of Darwin's finches. The predators of fish and squid have four big fangs. The eaters of tiny crustaceans and algae eaters have a comb of needles, and the predators of limpets and clams have incisors and molars (Take a look also to the grinding teeth like cobblestones at the bottom of the mouth).
- chansiky 5y agoThe entire family is like a bunch of Darwin's finches. More like Darwin's finches if designed by H.G. Giger. Cant say that I'd recommend googling "sparidae teeth".