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I need someone to help me identify this shark plz. Spotted in the wild. Maybe a new species. (mander.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] 51 points 1 year ago (8 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!!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year 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

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