Giant salamanders fed by means of suction Bashny.Net

Jaws giant salamanders are powerful enough that she was just 50 milliseconds to "suck" fish. The fact that the jaw amphibians have developed muscles, allowing the mouth to reveal the full width of almost instantly and involve food. Giant salamanders - the only vertebrate endowed with this "superpowers».

According to researchers, this way of eating could use the earliest land animals on which modern giant salamanders are very similar. Have survived species Andrias japonicus and Andrias davidianus, living in Japan and China. Their mass is 50 kg, and the length - more than one and a half meters.



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