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[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 56 points 2 weeks 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 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 points 1 week ago

You ever seen a tumbleweed run for it's life?

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

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

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

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

[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

They see the smells. And smell the sees.

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