Fish teeth: creepy and weird!

http://whiskeywords.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/anglerfish.jpg

The angler fish's teeth point inwards toward its throat. They're attached to its jaw not by flesh, but a flexible layer of cartilage. Consequently they can flex inwards to allow larger food in (or suck prey in more quickly), but not outward, making their teeth a terrifying trap of a turnstile!

http://www.wildflorida.com/articles/images/sheepsheadteeth-fishteeth.jpg

Sheepshead teeth - look like human!

http://www.mosportsmen.com/fishing/gatorgar/mouthone.jpg

The alligator gar has rows and rows and rows of teeth on its upper and lower jaw.

OMG sheepshead makes me die.

http://17.media.tumblr.com/XN8F6Q6m3kzwrqgiwyiDNNGoo1_500.jpg

What the?!

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ha, for a sec i thought that was a diseased horse or something

x-post whorl-tooth shark ^^^

http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/ThePoisoners/Images/viperfish_350.jpg

I take it, then, that you ladies aren't much for catfish grabblin'?

omg erica that made me audibly gasp

deep ocean fish - is there a word for this? - r some of the coolest shit ever imo

http://planktonforum.org/i/Fangtooth.jpg

http://images.morris.com/images/cjonline/mdControlled/cms/2007/07/08/183059637.jpg

hahaha that cartoon catfish its eatin some1!!!!

that fish looks miserable, lamp

http://www.oceana.org/fileadmin/oceana/images/Action_Center/eCards/Images/eCard_BLOBfish.jpg

a slime approaches!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

The human tooth fish is so creepy - I can't stop looking at it but it's freaking me out.

http://www.dlisted.com/files/caption0210.jpg

for the uninitiated, grabbling aka noodling:

Although the concept, catching fish with only the use of the arm in the water, is simple enough, the process of noodling is more complicated. The choice of catfish as the prey is not arbitrary, but comes from the circumstances of their habitat. Flathead catfish live in holes or under brush in rivers and lakes and thus are easy to capture due to the static nature of their dwelling. To begin, a noodler goes underwater to depths ranging from only a few feet to up to twenty feet, placing his hand inside a discovered catfish hole. If all goes as planned, the catfish will swim forward and latch onto the fisherman's hand, usually as a defensive maneuver in order to try to escape the hole. If the fish is particularly large, the noodler can hook the head around its gills.

Most noodlers have spotters who help them bring the catfish in, either to shore or to their boat. When a catfish bites onto a noodler, it holds on for quite a while.

With some of the biggest fish caught weighing in at up to 50-60 pounds, very few noodlers are strong enough to attempt noodling by themselves. Although carrying the fish after they have been subdued is not difficult, trying to secure a fish and remove it from one's hand at the same time can be a challenge.

..Noodling can result in superficial cuts and minor wounds to the noodler. This can be reduced by wearing gloves and other protective clothing. Losing fingers is also a risk, whether from the bite or infection. Most holes are deep enough that diving is needed, so there can be a danger of drowning. A person with confident swimming abilities may be caught off guard by the sudden added strain of carrying a large fish to the surface. Spotters can alleviate this danger, but it is still present. A wounded noodler ten to twenty feet underwater might not be able to return safely to the surface, and drown. Clothes may get tangled or snagged on roots or rocks, so some noodlers wear only shorts.

Have we ever talked about fish pedicures?

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/photo/images/attachement/jpg/site1/20080722/0013729e4abe09ef5a5c16.jpg

They eat your dead skin. With their teeth!

http://yosayword.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/1216684052063.jpg

No fucking way would I pay to let fish eat my feets!

probably feels pretty fun i gotta say

http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/abyss/life/images/wudep50.jpeg

EATIN U TEETH

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Wolf fish needs braces:

http://www.cryptomundo.com/wp-content/uploads/wolffish1.jpg

Aparrently its v good for psoriasis sufferers or something!

er, the eaty feet fish I means.

OK, not a fish and not teeth to see but he popped up on GIS and I will take any excuse to post this guy:

http://comments.deasil.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/weird-fish.jpg

x-post - Trayce - yeah, I've heard that but have also heard from someone who tried it that it wasn't that great. Maybe multiple sessions are necessary for optimum results.

i can imagine that it would really tickle your feet to have these fishes nibblin

<3 blobfish.

I am refusing to believe Sheepshead teeth are real.

Yeah that blobfish is amazing. How can that even exist?

It looks kinda like Ziggy.

http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:YN9tt060qCrq9M:http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2004/11/08/176572/Ziggy90.jpg
http://freedomwife.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/blobfish.jpg

http://iminurgames.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/phail2.jpg

(Cat)fish teeth are creepy.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/08/30/vamp_open.jpg

oh man thanks 2 this thread ive been googling creatures of the deep ^^^ this is A VAMPIRE SQUID wtf how awesome is that! when i was little kid my grandparents had these superold time life books one of which was called the ocean or w/e and it had all these pictures and graphs and it was srsly the scariest thing 2 me the idea that there were all these creepy things living beneath the waves were the was no light but also fascinating

Fish heads, fish heads, roly poly fish heads

OK sick of this username already.

Lamp, was it an educational pop-up book? I had one of those and I vividly recall throwing it into the closet in fear

(jawbone of a Ganges shark)

http://www.shark-pictures.com/viewpic.php?im=images/pictures/502_1146022609.jpg

nah it was one of these 2:

http://www.fifthavenuebooks.net/catalog/images/54Y.jpg
http://www.poetsdelight.de/pics/time_the_fishes.jpg

had this really great two page full color chart of the lvls of the ocean and what lived in each of them the abyss was v scary 2 me

I know the kind of chart you mean Lamp! I used to be all freaked out by the idea of pitch-dark deep sea dwellers, too. Anglegish and giant umbrella eels, especially oooerr *shudder*.

Umbrella-mouth eel, I mean.

http://www.magazine13.com/img/nature/weirdest_sea_creatures/umbrella_mouth_gulper_eel_01.jpg

OM NOM NOM.

http://www.magazine13.com/img/nature/weirdest_sea_creatures/hatchetfish_01.jpg

WHAT THE FUK. GOTH FISHES :|

Rare MEGAMOUTH shark.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1224/873594773_24a8102ea7.jpg?v=0

Looks like he don't need no teeth, he could swallow you whole. Ew.

http://www.fishingfury.com/ff-content/ti06-pike-skull.jpg

pike!

http://englishrussia.com/images/canned_thing/1.jpg
Delicious canned Atlantic Herring!

GOOD GOD

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3119/3095833761_1fa112e1f0.jpg

I took that while making fish stock for paella.

looks. uh... delicious?

poll

poll!

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3243/3107548849_a635d03ca3.jpg

The paella was lush, aye.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3089/3107548087_ff217cee19.jpg

This isn't a fish I know but look at the teeth of the crabeater seal!

http://www.rosssea.info/pix/images/Crabeater_teeth.jpg

FWIW: "He does not eat crabs but lives entirely in krill (euphausia) which are a very plentiful kind of shrimp which are also the main diet for the baleen whales and the sea birds and Adelies. The crab-eater has very odd teeth divided into branches which act like the baleen of the whale. Presumably they take in a great gulp of water and krill, squirt the water out between their teeth and eat the krill."

There's a fish and chip place down the road from me that has a lovely front window display of fresh seafood on ice.

They always seem to have 2 or 3 whole fish, artfully arranged, with their maws wide open and teeth bared.

I've always wondered if they pry the gobs open on purpose, it looks comical. I should try and get a surreptitious pic.

That seal's teeth look like a paisley design or something.

Why would anyone eat anything so ugly? Fish should be as cute as they are tasty.

I have some issues with fish. I have fishues. Fish freak me out a little. I should not read this thread at all, yet every time it pops up, I read it and then I spend about an hour shuddering at the thought of that FISH WITH HUMAN TEETH wtf sob

dope thread imo

There are no known cases of fish stealing peoples' teeth as they sleep. After all, fish are very careful and leave no witnesses.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/science/twilight-zone-ocean.html

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/11/22/science/22TWILIGHTZONE13/merlin_147123861_bbbb6b2a-1ca1-4dd2-85af-d711be78fd98-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp