Pisces with teeth are old news program . After all , we all develop up thinking piranhas were go to be a much bigger problem in our day-by-day lives . That say , it never gets onetime when someone finds a pacu – think piranha , but with dental plate .
The human - like teeth of pacu have witness them circulate in the press sentence and metre again , sometimes accompanied by a bizarre ball - bite myth ( more on this later ) . Most recently , one such toothy fish was found by Oklahoma resident Charlie , 11 , in a pond behind his family home .
" He was screaming , ' Oh my God , mummy ! Oh my God ! ' " Charlie ’s mother Janna Clinton toldNPR . “ Being in a neck of the woods pond , we ’re used to just view a few bass part or catfish . I mean , nothing with human - comparable teeth . "
Pacu aren’t the only fish to have evolved human-like teeth.Cedricguppy - Loury Cédric,CC BY-SA 4.0, viaWikimedia Commons
Pacu are a chemical group of fresh water Pisces aboriginal to South America . They ’re related to predator and have their own goodly chompers to boot , but there ’s an undeniably comical nature to their teeth . Just get a load of these :
As for what it ’s doing in Oklahoma , it ’s thought that the fish was probably a positron emission tomography that got tossed into the state of nature after it outgrew its armored combat vehicle . This is an unfortunately common practice that ’s see goldfish thesize of ten - class - oldsemerge in unexpected environment .
Left to its own gadget , the pacu may too become a giant . With enough space and ample resource , these Pisces the Fishes can extend toone meter(three infantry ) long , weigh 44 pounds ( 20 kilos ) . Their mighty size of it and teeth have led some to believe they might be unsafe , but they ’re herbivorous fish . However , that did n’t stop them from get a reputation for bite off masses ’s testicles .
fit in toSnopes , a testicle - biting incident reportedly occurred in 2001 when a male natator was chomped on the nads by a pacu in Papua New Guinea . In reality , these fish evolved to eat fruits and have seed - crushing teeth as a result . near for grinding up nuts of the non - human kind , but not very adept at snipping off testicles .
homo - like tooth on Pisces have evolve elsewhere in the animal kingdom , assheepshead fishuse theirs for grind up the shell of shellfish and crustaceans . sheepshead do n’t start out out toothy , expend their youth eating soft - corporate prey like worm . As the Pisces gets old and bigger , its teeth will uprise ever more prominent , and – just to sum up creepiness – the front set will even develop an enamel level , just like ours .
If anyone had dreams of setting up a dentistry office for fish , you might be onto something .
[ H / T : NPR ]
