r/whatisit • u/Cultural_Fall_3255 • 8h ago

New, what is it? What is this thing.

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u/Rocketeering 8h ago

The pincers/mouth on that thing are impressive!

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u/joodo123 8h ago

I just watched a video about the evolution of mandibular mouth forms vs hinge jaws and it was super interesting. But my biggest take away is that early bone jaws were terrifying. Look like Shai Haluud.

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u/DoctorMedieval 8h ago

Bless the coming and the going of him. May his passage cleanse the world.

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u/Would_daver 8h ago

The spice must flow…

Also, is that then like a land-hagfish? Because hagfish and their idiotic slimy cousins can stay underwater where they belong… damn lampreys

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u/redlaWw 6h ago

Apparently lampreys are delicious. Lamprey pie used to be the dish one gave as a gift to the king to seek favour.

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u/OfficialDCShepard 7h ago

Cambrian: You rang?

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u/atraviliario 8h ago

Can you share the link?

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u/MOTTOBOSS87 8h ago

Link on that vid?

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u/jrdubbleu 7h ago

What’d you call me?!

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u/Rocketeering 8h ago

Definitely would like a link of what you watched!

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u/dandukebb 8h ago

What’s the video? I want to check it out

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u/-LeoKnowz- 8h ago

Mmmmmmmmm

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u/Nice-Traffic4485 7h ago

I'm going to take a guess here and say that because the mandible has more range of motion than just a hinge, it allowed for things like grinding of grass as opposed to just tearing?

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u/Z0eTrent 7h ago

Please link!

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u/Mecha_Frogzilla 7h ago

Sauce? That sounds dope. Plz link.

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u/yournamehere10bucks 7h ago

Uh, link? Share the knowledge friend.

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u/howyadoineh 6h ago

Got a link to thar vid?

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u/nuclearbearclaw 6h ago

do you have a link to that video?

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u/YummYummBumm 8h ago

You should see my ex

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u/Crip_Dreadnought 8h ago

You should see my hemorrhoids

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u/Dependent_Union9285 8h ago

Yes! Link pleeeeease?!?

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u/OutlandishnessTop645 7h ago

slaps top of hemorrhoids “ you won’t believe how big this is”

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u/SHOW-ME-YOUR-ASSHOLE 7h ago

Can’t wait

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u/UnderstandingSuper34 7h ago

User name checks out.

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u/Impossible_Past5358 7h ago

So, you're really into pincers?

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u/Informal_Ad_9610 8h ago

no thanks.. she sounds lousy enough...

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u/Flow8008 8h ago

I should call her

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u/Brickhead88 8h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/l4Ki2obCyAQS5WhFe

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u/Upper-Expression-377 8h ago

Someone needed to say this!

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u/Ceelceela 5h ago

Stop it and get some help needed to be said. Heroes do not all wear capes.

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u/processingMistake 8h ago

I don’t know much about them but I think that’s pretty characteristic of wood boring beetles. Gotta have large chompers if you’re gonna eat wood ig

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u/gumbojones1 7h ago

I read this in the voice of project farm

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u/Rocketeering 7h ago

haha, I can totally hear it now

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u/DelFigolo 7h ago

Said the same thing when I saw yer mum