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[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 54 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The teeth are mostly flat, indicating that it's an herbivore. With the eyes on the front side of the face, that indicates that it's a predator, due to its binocular vision. So this rare specimen hunts ambulatory plants. A very rare find indeed! Yay science!!

[–] Ack@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago

It looks like it’s flying too. Those ambulatory plants must be FAST!

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

The eyes appear to be coming from their nostrils. I wonder what evolutionary pressures squeezed their eyes out their nose.

[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

They see the smells. And smell the sees.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Perhaps they're like frogs, which sometimes use their eyeballs to swallow and, uh ... The eyeballs got lost along the way?

[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

Sharks do not have binocular vision in the same way humans do, so their depth perception is less precise. They rely more on monocular cues (e.g., size, movement, and overlap of objects) and motion parallax (relative motion of objects at different distances) to estimate depth.

This dude a freak

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sounds useful for when the triffids come.

No one ever laughs when I make this reference.

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Hmm, I don't remember the book exploring bodies of water and the triffids. And I've read it recently.

Underappreciated apocalypse universe, that.

A species related to the hammerhead. Its called the cokehead

[–] AHorseWithNoNeigh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's absolutely an ERMAHGERD shark.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago
[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago
[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thats just my girl Hork, don't mind her she just wants to chill.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Classic Hork

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 8 points 2 days ago

I think you're seeing the tragic result of a shark having shark repellent bat-spray used on it.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

When I asked around the answer I kept repeatedly being given was "no, just... no. HELL no!" /s

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 4 points 2 days ago

That's Sphyrna derpi!

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago

It's a rare fruit punch mouth shark.

[–] bebabalula 3 points 2 days ago

That right there is an upside down person with googly eyes on their chin!