You are not prepared to look at the sling-jaw wrasse's mouth - ThreadSky

emberaegle.bsky.social•88 days ago

"Kiss? Kiss?"

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zoologicallie.bsky.social•88 days ago

"Pssh, I've seen fish do weird mouth stuff before! Surely I'm prepared!"

And then I wasn't.

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salinger.bsky.social•88 days ago

I’m going to have nightmares.

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funwithjunkmail.bsky.social•88 days ago

I actually was prepared, but only because my oldest went through a very long and involved fish phase. Did he like colorful or cool tropical fish you ask? No, he liked those things. And stuff sturgeon, odd sharks, catfish etc.

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ineptception.bsky.social•88 days ago

You we're correct

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cellsareneat.bsky.social•88 days ago

"Cartoon grandma giving you a kiss you don't want"-energy

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diedofennui.bsky.social•88 days ago

Make it stop!!

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miriamforster.bsky.social•88 days ago

wat

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clemensd1.bsky.social•88 days ago

lol, I wasn’t

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longseason.bsky.social•88 days ago

I'm very upset that I was shown this. Even with the warning.

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lydaa.bsky.social•88 days ago

I look at things like that fish and wonder how/why he evolved that way.

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itsnotbread.bsky.social•88 days ago

He looks at us and thinks the same thing

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aminifer.bsky.social•88 days ago

I can see the end point, and imagine the start point. It’s the evolutionary steps in the middle that I’m a bit confused about

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piglet.bsky.social•88 days ago

i was *not* prepared.

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kitwc.bsky.social•88 days ago

Is this a Muppet? I feel like it should be a Muppet from the 1970s maximally weird era

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jbwocky.bsky.social•88 days ago

In retrospect, the name was a clue

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lindsaygoldwert.bsky.social•88 days ago

Aieeeeeeeee

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morganjarrett.bsky.social•88 days ago

I thought all the years of working in a zoo and witnessing prehensile parts had prepared me for anything. I was wrong.

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live-and-learn.bsky.social•87 days ago

What if someone you know secretly can do this and they're just waiting to shock you at the right moment

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annejefferson.bsky.social•43 days ago

That is an extremely accurate content note for this post.

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salixwrosette.bsky.social•88 days ago

I was, in fact, not at all adequately prepared.

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nowhere.bsky.social•88 days ago

Can I say something without everyone getting mad

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defilerwyrm.art•88 days ago

I know a lotta fish use some degree of mouth-pop-outie action but most I've seen are nowhere near this extreme! Does this one also have pharyngeal jaws or does the crazy suction from that jaw action suffice?

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hufbauer.bsky.social•88 days ago

So cool. And so Alien.

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scientistsam.bsky.social•88 days ago

No. Absolutely not. Put it back.

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ellie.deeznuts.lol•88 days ago

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swordznsorcery.bsky.social•88 days ago

Pingu is the answer to everything.

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flamingorun.bsky.social•43 days ago

That’s pretty cool!

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savluvx.bsky.social•88 days ago

Okay I was trying to multitask and then 👀! And then watched it 10 times with my jaw dropped!

(see what I did there 🤡)

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sparrowflybynight.bsky.social•88 days ago

Does create a vacuum?

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introvox4.bsky.social•88 days ago

Yep, thanks for the nightmare material.

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baconwrangler.bsky.social•88 days ago

The angels really need to keep God out of the workshop when he’s drunk.

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deannatheanalyst.bsky.social•88 days ago

Dude, WTF?

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coffeegeekgirl.bsky.social•88 days ago

Oh. My. God.

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lessafetoday08.bsky.social•88 days ago

OK thank you for that. You just put me off eat😡ing for the rest of the day.

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miramirafl.bsky.social•88 days ago

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dvgeebees.bsky.social•88 days ago

Everything reminds me of her

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canadianchick.bsky.social•88 days ago

You are correct. I was not prepared. That is cool. And weird.

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robcruickshank.bsky.social•88 days ago

I like how it's on a paper towel as if it's about to be rolled in flour and breadcrumbs, but it's like "Hey before we do that, let me show you something"

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kikacol.bsky.social•88 days ago

It’s almost as if the name is descriptive! 🙃

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punkrockscience.bsky.social•87 days ago

WRASSES, man. *shakes head in awe* They’ll try anything.

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susieusmaximus.bsky.social•88 days ago

I am, but only because I've seen them before.

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nicleeci.bsky.social•88 days ago

Wow! I had no idea there was a fish that did this! 😳

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revbirder.bsky.social•88 days ago

...I really wasn't.

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mikefrburkecville.bsky.social•88 days ago

I am not worthy.

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mothtwiceborn.bsky.social•88 days ago

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artisanrox.bsky.social•88 days ago

O_O wtf is that even for!?

(that is very cool!)

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malonine.bsky.social•88 days ago

I should call him.

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lavender-wildcat.bsky.social•88 days ago

You are correct! 😬

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lyintad.bsky.social•88 days ago

fish keep disappointing

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kirknall.bsky.social•88 days ago

Ah man, when I unmuted I expected an “AAAHHHOOOOO-GAH” or something I guess

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nauerlater.bsky.social•88 days ago

Get the fish an Only Fans account!

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danandhisminis.bsky.social•43 days ago

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akxcix.com•88 days ago

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firstamendmentgirl.bsky.social•88 days ago

Sea creatures

Yikes

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randomnoun7.bsky.social•88 days ago

Posting that thing into my timeline is hawarassement.

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seanbrodrick.bsky.social•88 days ago

Was that fish designed as a cosmic joke?

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deekeee.bsky.social•88 days ago

I let out an audible gasp!

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sailbarque.bsky.social•88 days ago

Xenomorph chompers.

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cmteague.bsky.social•88 days ago

Correct. I was not prepared.

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thoggatt.bsky.social•88 days ago

Correct.

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discusfish.bsky.social•88 days ago

Gotta love that Latin name.

Epibulus insidiator (Pallas, 1770).

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finnanhaddie.bsky.social•88 days ago

You were right, I was not prepared

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larrynolan.bsky.social•88 days ago

Wow

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kady42.bsky.social•88 days ago

It's a xenomorph!

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rmspinafore.bsky.social•88 days ago

To be fair, my jaw does this on Thanksgiving.

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chartreuseplaid.bsky.social•43 days ago

Correct, I was not prepared.
But I appreciate the common name.

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weezieweaver.bsky.social•88 days ago

The way I just screamed “WHUT”

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nullprose.bsky.social•88 days ago

hmm it reminds me of the goblin shark, I wonder how many times a hinged mouth has emerged in divergent species

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missingmypnwlife.bsky.social•88 days ago

Whoa.....

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caracaracal.bsky.social•88 days ago

one of the goblin shark's buddies

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bosnianbob.bsky.social•88 days ago

The snoot-snoot

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sculptedreef.com•88 days ago

Maybe even a scoot-snoot.

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miss-scrawl.bsky.social•88 days ago

Me giving a kissy to my gf

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beverlybambury.com•88 days ago

That is... a xenomorph.

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nilani.bsky.social•43 days ago

Me: Surely I am

Also me: 👀

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raallen86.bsky.social•88 days ago

Finally, the McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine fix we’ve been waiting for,

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leftiebigsis.bsky.social•88 days ago

What's it for?

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ajcousins.bsky.social•88 days ago

WTF, SIR.

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planetaryartist.com•88 days ago

😱 NIGHTMARE FUEL.

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ajcousins.bsky.social•88 days ago

My kid is mad at me for showing him. 😂

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tamarafurey.bsky.social•88 days ago

😂

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urbanzoo.bsky.social•88 days ago

Vacuum-effect?

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discusfish.bsky.social•88 days ago

Indeed.

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nrodovsky.bsky.social•88 days ago

Oh thank God; I'm not the only 12 year-old here. (Not literally)

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discusfish.bsky.social•88 days ago

I content this is the best movie of the 1980s.

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alaskagirl88.bsky.social•88 days ago

DUDE!!! that's AWESOME!!!
message from my 9 year old grandson.

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marylacroix.bsky.social•88 days ago

It didn't even extend the courtesy of keeping the inside of its mouth inside its mouth. Rude.

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ecomigrant.bsky.social•88 days ago

The first time I saw this I was diving in Vanuatu. I admit I did a double take.

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ellz.bsky.social•43 days ago

NO

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lairdelampblack.bsky.social•87 days ago

*cartoon smooching noise*

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caidid.bsky.social•88 days ago

Just today I saw a creole wrasse at the aquarium where I volunteer suddenly basically pucker its lips out into a short tube but this makes that look like nothing!

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