Jaws of a moray eel

[Ilya]

Remember the scenes in Alien movies where the creature opens its jaws and the second set of jaws comes out? Apparently it is not science fiction:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2..._the_moray.php

[Swift]

That is just wicked.

[ciderman]

Agreed that is truely awesome...
Let us hope for Phil's safe return from the squiddly ones domain

[Kullat Nunu]

I know I'm not the only one who is thinking about creatures with acid as blood...

[Doodler]

Truth is sometimes as strange as fiction. Echo Swift's sentiments otherwise.

[Celestial Mechanic]

An old B.C. comic said it best:

If an eel lunges out,
And it bites off your snout,
That's a moray...

[BigDon]

I've seen something similar in some predatory cichlids. Just not that well developed.

[jami cat]

An old B.C. comic said it best:
If an eel lunges out,
And it bites of your snout,
That's a moray...

"When you wade in a creek.....
..and an eel bites your cheek.....
...it's a moray....."

Posted by: Rocky

Tell me I'm not reading this...

[Ronald Brak]

Tell me I'm not reading this...

You're not reading this.

(Awaits Don Adams response.)

[jami cat]

what...what?

[presses button to raise the Cone of Silence]

You're not reading this.

(Awaits Don Adams response.)

I asked you not to tell me that...

[KaiYeves]

Moray eels are very cool. At a local aquarium, there is one that lives in a little cave in the shark tank and I go and watch it sometimes, just to clear my head.

[Ronald Brak]

Moray eels are very cool. At a local aquarium, there is one that lives in a little cave in the shark tank and I go and watch it sometimes, just to clear my head.

Don't put your ear against its cave or it really will clear your head.

[KaiYeves]

Listen, just because I said in that stamp thread that Hoagy looks like my dad doesn't mean I'm stupid. I've got lots of brains from my mom's side. ;-)