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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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When fish have nicer teeth than me.
this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2025
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Have you tried a freshwater diet?
What kind of people have teeth that look exactly like this? That's nuts.
Fish people
Hi, I'm Troy McClure
It's the "Innsmouth Look"
The front row ones look more similar to our teeth than an apes, so that is pretty crazy to me.
Donald R DeCicco
Thanks! I hate it
Nibble nibble
The food that can chew you back.
What in the everloving fuck is that?? Nightmare fuel 😨
A partially eaten cooked Pacu fish.
They evolved to chew nuts that fell into the water
Ok well, I'm never swimming again.
If you wade or jump in, you'll be fine.
If your junk is dry, the fish can't get to it
When I wake up screaming at 2 am, this right here, this is why.
I too have three rows of teeth.
Nope.
Can we use them for transplants?
Is this an example of convergent evolution?
Hey it is! Kinda. I Think.
But why are human teeth shaped like this in the front? Not so much for nuts, right?
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)
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You people have never watched River Monsters with Jeremy Wade and it shows.
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Sounds like propaganda from Big Almond.
Is this some Midwest Big Apple?
No, that's the Big Onion.
Are you suggesting people are evolutionarily suited to gobbling nuts?
Can I harvest teeth from this fish to replace the one I'm missing?
Just grow them back
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.
totally what my teeth look like
When the Japanese finally get their teeth generation DNA therapy going, everyone will be after these fish for starter scaffolds.
Would you kiss that mouth?
Depends how many drinks I’ve had.
I'm scared of it but also impressed it evolved to eat nuts.
Please mark NSFL
That’s fucked up.
Já viu um pacu de 30m?
Aqui hahaha
Suddenly caralho
Is that what my teeth suppose to look like?
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
Ahktually, they're related to piranhas and are omnivorous.
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