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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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this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2025
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Is that what my teeth suppose to look like?
I'm scared of it but also impressed it evolved to eat nuts.
If I went into an aquarium to find these fuckers cheesing at me I'd have to take mushrooms to cope. Thank fuck we have AI and this shits on a screen, I can sleep another day
Please mark NSFL
That’s fucked up.
I too have three rows of teeth.
There's another marine fish that also has these kind of teeth -- look up Sheepshead fish!
I hadn't had many regrets in life, originally.
Can we use them for transplants?
Já viu um pacu de 30m?
Aqui hahaha
Suddenly caralho
You people have never watched River Monsters with Jeremy Wade and it shows.
Name checks out, hay seed
Sounds like propaganda from Big Almond.
Is this some Midwest Big Apple?
No, that's the Big Onion.
When the Japanese finally get their teeth generation DNA therapy going, everyone will be after these fish for starter scaffolds.
Can I harvest teeth from this fish to replace the one I'm missing?
Just grow them back
Exactly.
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The food that can chew you back.
What in the everloving fuck is that?? Nightmare fuel 😨
A partially eaten cooked Pacu fish.
Ahktually, they're related to piranhas and are omnivorous.
Nope.
Are you suggesting people are evolutionarily suited to gobbling nuts?
I can eat walnut whole. The shell is fibrous, good for digestion.
Found. The pacu fish
totally what my teeth look like
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