7 most bizarre and terrible mouths in the animal world

We invite you to learn about what animals in the mouth it is better not to look.

1. Teeth "Aliens" miksinovyh



About the voracity of these legendary creatures. Animals often eat the fish got into the network, so therefore bring a lot of harm-fishing. Like a huge worm, hagfish has an impressive jaw with an interesting arrangement of sharp teeth, arranged in several rows.

Ironically, despite the presence of such a menacing jaws myxine not necessarily use it to stay well-fed. She is able to eat the skin: floating in the water next to the rotten decaying corpse of living beings, soaking up their wonderful skin corpse juices through the pores of the skin.

2. Teeth knives leatherback sea cherepah



Leatherbacks are the largest turtles in the world. Unlike many other harmless species of turtles, nibbling the grass, these monsters have a very terrifying jaw, they need to feed on mollusks, crustaceans and young fish.

In the mouth, these turtles have a whole bunch of teeth, similar to stalactites in the cave, which grow from a completely different side of the jaw and even the throat.

3. The vampire fangs fish vampirov



Look: it payara, which is called "vampire fish».

To survive in this river, like Amazon, you need to stock up an effective weapon, especially sharp fangs, which are available for gidrolika. In the mouth of the fish - different in size, but very sharp teeth, some of which reach a length of up to 15 centimeters.

Interestingly, payara closely related to piranhas, but this does not prevent predators often prey on them. Despite the fact that cases of attacks on people gidrolikov not observed, nevertheless advised to stay away from the water in which they live.

4. Teeth-saws voracious glowing akuly



Isistius appear only after sunset and swim in the darkness in search of prey. These fish length of 5 centimeters, but have the biggest teeth relative to body size.

Due to the fact that isistius can not boast of large body size, they have learned to attack larger fish and animals, biting off chunks of meat on them and then disappearing. Victims shark - whales, large fish and dolphins - do not die, but only left with wounds that heal slowly leaving scars. There have been documented cases of attacks on the person.

5. Amazing teeth pingvinov



If you look at the penguin's mouth, there you will notice something very dangerous and threatening - sharp teeth.

The teeth are on all sides penguin inside the mouth, including the upper and lower jaw of the beak, and even language. Since penguins prefer to swallow prey whole, they have to somehow grab and hold on to it, that's the ubiquitous and help teeth. Thorny mouth and tongue work as a belt conveyor, which moves food in the same direction.

6. Language-dart from dyatla



On the ability of a woodpecker with great speed hollow tree trunks it is known to all, but about the amazing properties of his tongue was known to few. This language is almost three times the length of the beak, and has a hook on the end of an amazing, allowing the birds to get yourself treats.

One can only guess how such a long tongue can fit in the mouth of a bird. It turns out that when the language is not necessary, woodpecker wraps it with the back of the skull, it passes near the eye, and it pulls up to the end of the nostrils.

7. Human teeth fish paku



Outwardly this rybёshka little different from other standard fish with scales and fins, but if you look at the mouth of the fish, it is very surprised: the fish pacu human teeth!

Why it took to copy nature itself? Perhaps this is due to the fact that these teeth are as a person, an excellent job of chewing almost any food, including seeds and nuts, that the fish do not tend to.

via factroom.ru

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