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ickplant@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 9 个月前

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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ickplant@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 9 个月前
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  • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
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    9 个月前

    When fish have nicer teeth than me.

    • FenrirIII@lemmy.world
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      Have you tried a freshwater diet?

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

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      Fish people

      • Prehensile_cloaca @lemm.ee
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        9 个月前

        Hi, I’m Troy McClure

      • Bizzle@lemmy.world
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        It’s the “Innsmouth Look”

    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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      The front row ones look more similar to our teeth than an apes, so that is pretty crazy to me.

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      Donald R DeCicco

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    Thanks! I hate it

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      Nibble nibble

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    The food that can chew you back.

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

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        A partially eaten cooked Pacu fish.

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    They evolved to chew nuts that fell into the water

    Ok well, I’m never swimming again.

    • AmidFuror@fedia.io
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      If you wade or jump in, you’ll be fine.

      • moody@lemmings.world
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        If your junk is dry, the fish can’t get to it

      • Bonus@lemm.ee
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        deleted by creator

        • AmidFuror@fedia.io
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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.

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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.

  • CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world
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    Nope.

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    Can we use them for transplants?

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    Is this an example of convergent evolution?

    • lars@lemmy.sdf.org
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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@lemmy.world
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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)

        • lars@lemmy.sdf.org
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          Niiice—and thank you!!

          • 𝕊𝕞𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕞 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕔@lemmy.world
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            Anytime! An opportunity to learn should always be used :)

        • ByteJunk@lemmy.world
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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@lemmy.world
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            Honestly I don’t blame you given the pictures of them with their teeth out

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

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      Name checks out, hay seed

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    deleted by creator

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Sounds like propaganda from Big Almond.

    • VolumetricShitCompressor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Is this some Midwest Big Apple?

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        No, that’s the Big Onion.

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    Are you suggesting people are evolutionarily suited to gobbling nuts?

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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      I can eat walnut whole. The shell is fibrous, good for digestion.

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        Found. The pacu fish

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    When the Japanese finally get their teeth generation DNA therapy going, everyone will be after these fish for starter scaffolds.

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