The upper jaw of the Sperm whale, Earth’s largest predator, bears no teeth at all only hollow pits into which the lower jaw’s teeth fit snugly.
by cosmic_voyager01
The upper jaw of the Sperm whale, Earth’s largest predator, bears no teeth at all only hollow pits into which the lower jaw’s teeth fit snugly.
by cosmic_voyager01
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Looks super weird and tiny jaw compared to head size, the definition of evolutions “eh, good enough”
Who killed that whale? Why is there rope around his mouth?
This is an art installation, not a real whale.
Gross
My wallet bears no money at all only a hollow pit into which money would fit
I have a question: Are they born with the holes in the upper palate?”
Why are they playing field hockey on a dead whale?
/s
He looks like he’s having a whale of a sleep
Imagine you know that every fucking piece of food you bite will get stuck between your gums and your teeth… without any way for you to get it out… because you dont have fucking arms…
Sperm whales live in hell mate.
Teething must be a bitch
The sea was angry that day my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup at the deli.
Do they drink water?
Ughhh sperm whales make me uneasy
Earth’s largest _toothed_ predator, not largest predator.
atleast he won’t be having regular dentist visits
The scars on this big behemoth, it had been through a lot.
“Ugh, they’re taking pictures. Do I have any plankton in my toothpits?”
Earth’s largest predator is also Earth’s largest animal: the blue whale. They eat krill using their baleen to filter them from the sea. Even though these aren’t teeth, they nevertheless seek out and eat their prey like other carnivores.
Was this beached or harvested?
Scientists have observed healthy, full sperm whales missing their lower jaws entirely.
So..they do have teeth? Or they dont? Im confused.
Close to the biggest teeth in animal kind… in all history really accept for its ancestor
“Earth’s largest predator” such a bs statement. Blue whales would be the largest, ever, since they still have to hunt and eat krill.
Teethussy
The size and shape of thier jaw is so weird to me.
Dentists hate this one trick.
The mouth looks like the key hole on my front door. He likes to drink i can tell
Going to need some dynamite to clean up that beach
They got nerfed pretty bad huh? Isn’t their ancestor the levyathan or something like that? Those whales had daggers in the top and bottom
I thought that’s Timmy
So I wonder, what’s there first? The holes or the teeth?
T-Rex arms in buccal format.
😔
The holes must smell bad
Just needs a little dynamite
That a female, males have teeth the top
Who edited this photo to death
they have to bite themselves to close their mouth