Deep-Sea Ghost Sharks Grow Teeth on Their Foreheads, and Scientists Finally Know Why

Scitech Daily ^ | September 21, 2025 | Eric Hamilton, University of Florida

[dfwgator]

What about lasers?

[Red Badger]

That didn’t take long.....................😎

[PIF]

I once and thankfully only once had over 1000 ratfish in my bottom cod fish set net. Took 6 hours to get them all out and finally retrieve the net.

One rat fish dropped out of the net, as it came aboard in a cluster of them, and fell to the deck - the spine on its dorsal pieced my boot went through my foot and into the deck. So yes, I rightfully hate them.

The net was trashed had had to undergo major repairs dockside in the 38 degree weather.

[DannyTN]

I dated a woman like that...

[ryderann]

Must be where Bill Clinton got the idea from.

[PIF]

Tried deep frying a fillet - but it came out like tissue paper and tasted of nothing. The teeth are for breaking shellfish, small crabs etc - what they eat.

[epluribus_2]

probablya good time to review the terrifying reality of mutant chicken teeth.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mutant-chicken-grows-alli/

Mutant Chicken Grows Alligatorlike Teeth

(this is all part of the Creator’s unfathomable plans)

[epluribus_2]

“Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that’s how it always starts. Then later there’s running and screaming”

Dr. Ian Malcolm

[bert]

Rather than an aid to clasping, there is wide agreement that the Tenacula have the spike for foreplay

[Magnum44]

[SunkenCiv]

Someday this information will be taught in, yes, you guessed it, *school*.

[Does so]

ONE individual fish that evolved with those teeth are the ones that carried forward the species.

Not surprised...

[tet68]

Nice claspers on that one!!

[Moltke]

Alligators should reciprocate and grow wings.

Flying alligators! How cool would that be. (At least in a movie.)

[antidemoncrat]

This wouldn’t be near as strange as finding teeth around their butt holes.

[daniel1212]

“One fossil, dating back 315 million years, revealed a tenaculum connected to the upper jaw that carried teeth..." "We have a combination of experimental data with paleontological evidence to show how these fishes co-opted a preexisting program for manufacturing teeth to make a new device that is essential for reproduction.” "showcasing evolutionary flexibility."

So teeth "essential for reproduction' developed over millions (?) of years, thus explaining how they reproduced over millions of years.

Perfectly logical. Given enough time, such evolutionists can develop of form of logic essential for supporting this.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

For home protection, we have The Bear Cavalry:

[null and void]

“If chimaeras can make a set of teeth outside the mouth, where else might we find teeth?”

Teeth

[Red Badger]

I think I dated her .................