Fish with 'human' teeth caught in North Carolina • Hacker News Board

Re: Fish with 'human' teeth caught in North Carolina

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Post by pvaldes » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 9:34 AM UTC

McMiniBurger wrote: post #15

can humans use those teeth as replacement?

Not. Even if we could solve the rejecting issues (and we have fully solved the technology for breeding sea breams since decades), they are too small. Not really suitable for adult people.

And not useful for children, that would lost and replace their teeth in any case.

The structure of the teeth root is also different, and the mandible is much more acute triangular than ours. Not useful to replace part of a missing mandible in my opinion. Specially when you can just made a ceramic piece of the right size and shape and do a bone self-transplant.

Re: Fish with 'human' teeth caught in North Carolina

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Post by pvaldes » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 9:59 AM UTC

simmerup wrote: post #2

Is that not a photoshop? The teeth look like they blur into the mouth

This is its normal aspect

Re: Fish with 'human' teeth caught in North Carolina

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Post by headmelted » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 11:25 AM UTC

Farfromthehood wrote: post #20

Common fish. They eat shellfish. They taste like crab.

The shellfish taste like crab or this merdonkey does?

Re: Fish with 'human' teeth caught in North Carolina

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Post by david-gpu » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 2:02 PM UTC

pvaldes wrote: post #11

Let me guess by the title... a super common Sparidae? Yep, nothing strange them. Every marine biologist, alive or past, know that sea breams that eat mainly shells have this set of teeth to tear and crush. A much more interesting trivia is that this animal is hermaphrodyte so the journalists have lost their only chance to write something like 'mutating bisexual fish with human teeth and wearing a prison uniform, disc…

> this animal is hermaphrodyte so the journalists have lost their only chance to write something like 'mutating bisexual fish

I've heard bisexuality defined as sexual attraction towards both males and females. If your species is hermaphrodite, you arguably cannot be bisexual because there are neither males not females to be attracted to.

Re: Fish with 'human' teeth caught in North Carolina

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Post by chansiky » Tue, Aug 10, 2021, 7:49 PM UTC

pvaldes wrote: post #11

Let me guess by the title... a super common Sparidae? Yep, nothing strange them. Every marine biologist, alive or past, know that sea breams that eat mainly shells have this set of teeth to tear and crush. A much more interesting trivia is that this animal is hermaphrodyte so the journalists have lost their only chance to write something like 'mutating bisexual fish with human teeth and wearing a prison uniform, disc…

  > that eat mainly shells have this set of teeth to tear and crush

I was thinking when I saw the images that there must be some sort of convergent evolution going on. I would love to know what the similarities in our mastication patterns are with these fish. I wonder if our purported history with consuming bone marrow have anything to do with this similarity?

Re: Fish with 'human' teeth caught in North Carolina

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Post by pvaldes » Wed, Aug 11, 2021, 8:58 AM UTC

chansiky wrote: post #25

pvaldes wrote: post #11

Let me guess by the title... a super common Sparidae? Yep, nothing strange them. Every marine biologist, alive or past, know that sea breams that eat mainly shells have this set of teeth to tear and crush. A much more interesting trivia is that this animal is hermaphrodyte so the journalists have lost their only chance to write something like 'mutating bisexual fish with human teeth and wearing a prison uniform, disc…

> that eat mainly shells have this set of teeth to tear and crush I was thinking when I saw the images that there must be some sort of convergent evolution going on. I would love to know what the similarities in our mastication patterns are with these fish. I wonder if our purported history with consuming bone marrow have anything to do with this similarity?

The entire family is like a bunch of Darwin's finches. The predators of fish and squid have four big fangs. The eaters of tiny crustaceans and algae eaters have a comb of needles, and the predators of limpets and clams have incisors and molars (Take a look also to the grinding teeth like cobblestones at the bottom of the mouth).

Re: Fish with 'human' teeth caught in North Carolina

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Post by chansiky » Thu, Aug 12, 2021, 7:51 PM UTC

pvaldes wrote: post #26

chansiky wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> that eat mainly shells have this set of teeth to tear and crush I was thinking when I saw the images that there must be some sort of convergent evolution going on. I would love to know what the similarities in our mastication patterns are with these fish. I wonder if our purported history with consuming bone marrow have anything to do with this similarity?

The entire family is like a bunch of Darwin's finches. The predators of fish and squid have four big fangs. The eaters of tiny crustaceans and algae eaters have a comb of needles, and the predators of limpets and clams have incisors and molars (Take a look also to the grinding teeth like cobblestones at the bottom of the mouth).

  The entire family is like a bunch of Darwin's finches.

More like Darwin's finches if designed by H.G. Giger. Cant say that I'd recommend googling "sparidae teeth".