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@[email protected] to Mildly [email protected] • 28 days ago

Pacu fish have teeth that look exactly like people’s. They evolved to chew nuts that fell into the water

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Pacu fish have teeth that look exactly like people’s. They evolved to chew nuts that fell into the water

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  • @[email protected]
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    107•28 days ago

    When fish have nicer teeth than me.

    • FenrirIII
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      16•27 days ago

      Have you tried a freshwater diet?

  • oce 🐆
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    What kind of people have teeth that look exactly like this? That’s nuts.

    • AmidFuror
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      40•28 days ago

      Fish people

      • Prehensile_cloaca
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        19•28 days ago

        Hi, I’m Troy McClure

      • Bizzle
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        2•27 days ago

        It’s the “Innsmouth Look”

    • @[email protected]
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      The front row ones look more similar to our teeth than an apes, so that is pretty crazy to me.

    • Altima NEO
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      3•28 days ago

      Donald R DeCicco

  • @[email protected]
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    43•28 days ago

    Thanks! I hate it

    • Bone
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      8•28 days ago

      Nibble nibble

  • @[email protected]
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    42•28 days ago

    The food that can chew you back.

    • @[email protected]
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      14•27 days ago

      What in the everloving fuck is that?? Nightmare fuel 😨

      • @[email protected]
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        16•27 days ago

        A partially eaten cooked Pacu fish.

    • @[email protected]
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      13•27 days ago

  • Jay
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    36•28 days ago

    They evolved to chew nuts that fell into the water

    Ok well, I’m never swimming again.

    • AmidFuror
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      17•28 days ago

      If you wade or jump in, you’ll be fine.

      • @[email protected]
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        7•27 days ago

        If your junk is dry, the fish can’t get to it

      • Bonus
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        6•27 days ago

        If you fall in, not so much.

        • AmidFuror
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          The most dangerous place to be is right on the shore. Either jump in or stay away. You have to commit around these nut-chompers.

  • @[email protected]
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    I too have three rows of teeth.

  • Nusm
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    When I wake up screaming at 2 am, this right here, this is why.

  • @[email protected]
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    Nope.

  • @[email protected]
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    19•27 days ago

    Can we use them for transplants?

  • @[email protected]
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    18•28 days ago

    Is this an example of convergent evolution?

    • @[email protected]
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      Hey it is! Kinda. I Think.

      But why are human teeth shaped like this in the front? Not so much for nuts, right?

      • 𝕊𝕞𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕞 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕔
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        I thought the same thing so I looked into it! The pacu fish’s front teeth aren’t flat like ours. They’re more like our molars, which serve the same purpose of being used for crushing (so it technically still is convergent evolution)

        • @[email protected]
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          Niiice—and thank you!!

          • 𝕊𝕞𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕞 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕔
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            1•27 days ago

            Anytime! An opportunity to learn should always be used :)

        • @[email protected]
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          That article you linked literally starts with

          We apologize in advance for the nightmarish qualities inherent to the pacu fish

          No. Nope. No way. Uh uh. I’m not scrolling down. NEVER. You hear me? I have enough nightmares as it is…

          • 𝕊𝕞𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕞 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕔
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            1•27 days ago

            Honestly I don’t blame you given the pictures of them with their teeth out

  • cowfodder
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    15•27 days ago

    You people have never watched River Monsters with Jeremy Wade and it shows.

    • @[email protected]
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      Name checks out, hay seed

  • Bonus
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    13•27 days ago

    Exactly.

    <Inigo_Montoya.gif>

  • @[email protected]
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    9•27 days ago

    Sounds like propaganda from Big Almond.

    • @[email protected]
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      Is this some Midwest Big Apple?

      • @[email protected]
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        2•27 days ago

        No, that’s the Big Onion.

  • @[email protected]
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    Are you suggesting people are evolutionarily suited to gobbling nuts?

    • @[email protected]
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      I can eat walnut whole. The shell is fibrous, good for digestion.

      • @[email protected]
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        Found. The pacu fish

  • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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    7•27 days ago

    Can I harvest teeth from this fish to replace the one I’m missing?

    • @[email protected]
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      3•27 days ago

      Just grow them back

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