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This Deep-Sea Fish Has Teeth on Its Forehead—and It Uses Them for Sex
Deep in the ocean, you can find a strange fish with teeth not just in its mouth, but also on its head. The spotted ratfish, a ...
Seaside Aquarium staff seized the opportunity, examining the contents of the stomach of the beached creature, which included entire squids and undigested fish The deep-sea creatures are also known as ...
Scientists found a 3-foot-long creature with “sharp” teeth in a river in Vietnam and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Hieu Do Quang via Unsplash In a river of southern Vietnam, a ...
Ratfish developed "forehead teeth" called tenaculum for reproduction, offering rare insight into the flexibility of ...
The researchers identified teeth on the tenaculum of ancient relatives to the modern adult male spotted ratfish. This fossil record helped them establish the historical significance of this structure, ...
The male ratfish has a unique, club-shaped appendage on its forehead, called a tenaculum, which it uses to cling to the ...
Animal teeth serve purposes beyond eating. Sperm whales use teeth to grip prey. Narwhals possess a unique tusk for competition. African elephants employ tusks for various tasks. Walruses rely on tusks ...
El Paso Matters reported this week that the county is considering draining Ascarate Lake to prevent “periodic fish kills and deepening the lake by excavating sediment and debris for the first time in ...
The spotted ratfish is a two-foot-long fish with a big head and a long, skinny tail that lives in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. It belongs to a group of fish called chimaeras that are closely ...
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