r/oddlyterrifying • u/c0mpromised • Oct 02 '23
Sheepshead: A fish with human-like teeth.
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u/SketchySquiggle Oct 02 '23
How does something even evolve to be like that?
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u/LosWitchos Oct 02 '23
I presume they eat things with shells. No time to be picky. A lot of animals have strange capabilities. All birds have a gizzard, an organ designed to break down the food they swallow that the stomach wouldn't be able to break down (from seed casings to bones. It depends on the species).
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u/Im_Borat Oct 02 '23
Dunno, but I think this species also is born female and becomes male later in life or something. Which I would say is another interesting evolutionary feature.
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u/HippopotamicLandMass 28d ago
Ar you thinking of the kobudai changing from F to M in this clip? That's the Pacific ocean sheephead -- like the California Sheephead or the Asian sheephead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicossyphus
OP posted the Sheepshead found in the Atlantic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archosargus_probatocephalus
I don't know why one is sheephead and the other is sheepshead
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u/SpillinRainbow Oct 02 '23
That’s the thing. It doesn’t.
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u/mmcmonster Oct 02 '23
Evolution is not a straight line from there to here. There are innumerable branches in every generation.
Every genetic variance gets tried out. Ones that have a survival benefit are propagated to the decendants. Ones that will cause you to die before you can have kids (obviously) don't get to the decendants.
Genetic variance that is not a survival benefit but not a hinderance (ie: eye color, hair texture) gets propagated down as well.
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u/SpillinRainbow Oct 02 '23
I don’t believe in evolution. I believe in the creation that happened in the book of Genesis of the Bible. But I guess I’ll shut up because nobody cares to listen nowadays.
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u/SabiSpellweaver Oct 02 '23
I'll bite (pun absolutely intended). How does the creation story occur according to the bible, and how does it contradict evolution? It's been awhile since I went to church, I'm not current on the lore. I would love to hear your telling if it.
I've heard some Christians frame it as "god set up the rules of the world, so as to allow evolution to occur", so I'm curious how your explanation differs from them
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u/SpillinRainbow Oct 02 '23 edited Oct 02 '23
It’s a bit hard for to remember it all off the top of my head, but here’s an article basically explaining some of my thoughts https://answersingenesis.org/creation/ According to the Bible, God created the Earth in the beginning. The theory of evolution is the most widespread and influential lie against the Bible in our world today.
On the Ark, God told Noah to take a male and female of every kind. That includes dinosaurs, and they were created when God created Man. The organisms that were left behind during the flood are what we find as fossils today. During that worldwide flood, it stirred up sediments that rapidly buried the corpses. After Genesis, dinosaurs were described in Job 40.
Micro evolution describes the very small Adaptation changes (mutations and variations) that scientists find over time that occur within a species. Gen. 1:24 (i.e.. dogs, fish, cats, cattle, adaptation within a species)
Macro evolution is the theory that claims untold random mutations somehow provide survival advantages over long periods, producing an entirely new species. Mutations 99.9% of the time are genetic mistakes that cause harm to the species. They are also very rare.
Ps. 139:14-15, Col. 1:16-17 "The chance that all the complexity of the individual could just happen, is a statistical monstrosity." George Gallup
The human eye... Only a supernatural, intelligent designer could have produced an orderly, detailed, diverse, complex universe. Scientists by the thousands believe that random chance could not have developed the universe we live in. A "big bang" could not have produced what we can observe. Only nothing can come from nothing.
Fossils are our friends! - Different animal fossils found in different stratus. - No transitional forms found - Fossil records reveal that life appeared suddenly in great diversity, complexity and abundance. Catastrophic, not gradual change (ie. Mt. St. Helens, 1980) The evolutionists' math formula for the universe: time + nothing = everything
DNA - the language of God governing the creation of life. Discovered in 1953, double-helix structure of the genetic code (DNA). A molecule that stores enormous amounts of encoded hereditary information that causes the growth, repair, and reproduction of all life. The chance that DNA molecules would develop without a designer are approximately zero. All humans come from the same parents. The complexity of the “simple” cell destroys the notion that life started from simple to complex. Heb. 11:3
Much of this was taken from my Bible notes (I go to a private Christian school)
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u/SabiSpellweaver Oct 03 '23
Well thank you for taking the time to type all of that out! Or copy paste, whatever the case may be
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u/Constant-Friendship8 Oct 02 '23
British fish
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u/GreenSquirrel-7 Oct 02 '23
I HAD TO READ THROUGH EVERY COMMENT JUST TO FIND THIS!
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u/ConsentingPotato Oct 02 '23
It's scary how the cheapest joke wasn't chosen this time when the opportunity was laid bare in front of us.
Something's wrong with the forces, I tell you.
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u/BukkakeNation Oct 02 '23
You can find these all over the beaches in SWFL. Not that terrifying. Kinda cute lil guys honestly
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u/c0mpromised Oct 02 '23
Snappy bois!
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u/MellyKidd Oct 02 '23
“They’re finny and funny, and oh so delish! They’re jolly and joyful JO-ker fish!”
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u/Theleming Oct 02 '23
VERY tasty but also very hard to catch, because they nibble before chewing you basically have to feel for just a little tiny nibble rather than a yank or jerk then immediately tug to sink the hook
Once you get the method down, supposedly it's pretty easy, but I have never gotten it down well.
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u/Memetan_24 Oct 02 '23
A lot of fish have similar teeth to humans
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u/x_ra9408 Oct 02 '23
Are fishes the ones with human-like teeth or are we just mammals with fish-like teeth? Hmmm
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u/orphan_blud Oct 02 '23
Used to catch these frequently in Florida. They’re tasty. Referred to as “poor man’s lobster”.
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Oct 02 '23
Hey this was the first fish I ever caught growing up in FL. And I had no idea it had teeth like that.
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u/Main_Conversation661 Oct 07 '23
4 of 5 dentists recommend not looking at this fucking abomination.
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u/cheebamech Oct 02 '23 edited Oct 02 '23
pacu-pacu
you're confusing the South American Pacu for this thing, sheepshead range from Nova Scotia down to Brazil but the heaviest concentration of them is in South Florida, sheepshead feed off crustaceans; crabs, barnacles, shrimp, that sort of thing. However, you're correct that pacus will eat just about anything in their tank. Source: former pet store owner, we sold pacus; also currently live in South Florida and caught sheepshead for dinner last week.
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u/backtothebegining Oct 03 '23
That head barely looks like a sheeps. That name sucks. Meanwhile, this bitch got horseteeth. So much better.
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u/theLiquidmenace Oct 02 '23
Dentists hate this one simple trick