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OMG MORAY EEL HUNTING ON LAND!
Moray eels have an internal pair of jaws, literally like the jaws from the Aliens monster, to grab prey and pull it down their throat (open thread for video). This way they can eat on land. WHAT IS THIS PLANET??
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Here's a Moray climbing onto a rock and grabbing a food item. You can see it bite, and then the food magically disappears down the eels throat: the second pair of jaws slid up, grabbed the food, and pulled it down!https://twitter.com/UCSCscience/status/1404530342338387969 …
Watch a moray eating on land, caught on video for the first time!
While most fish need water to feed, a new study by Moray eel's second jaws are called "pharyngeal jaws" and their similar to the small bones around our voice box. So imagine pushing your voice box into your mouth and using your teeth-studded vocal cords to grab onto food and pulling it down your throat. That's how the moray do.pic.twitter.com/6MC9RTv2Xu
Most fish use suction to swallow food. But you can't do that on land. Instead of sucking like fish or swallowing like mammals, morays DRAG prey down their throat!
h/t @AstroKatie for the questionpic.twitter.com/wt6nWKnfMV
Amazing and terrifying at the same time!
i love morays even more now
Is it because without that extra set of jaws they would need to rely on sucking water in?
Exactly. Most teleost fish use lateral body muscles to generate suction that pulls in food. Similar to the way we suck in a big breath by inflating muscles in our chest and abdomen. @CampAriel discovered this and it's super cool.
Eu já vi uma, são bem maiores pessoalmente
A new thing to worry about at the beach.
unless you're a crab I think you're good ;)
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