An Animal That Eats Your Mom’s Face … Twice
Moray Eel
Since the first day I read about this fantastic new find about Moray Eels, it keeps me awake at night knowing the deep sea is undoubtedly the creepiest place on the planet. There are over 200 species of Moray Eel on the planet and can reach lengths of 10 feet. It was thought before that, like many other fish, Moray Eels feed by the use of suction. This was wrong. The new discovery is so horrifying, it may bring about the end of civilization. Well, maybe not, but it will at least force people to perform an already ridiculously abused double take.
Everyone knows the Moray Eel. They are featured in aquariums staring right back with a jaw moving that resembles an animal gasping for air, but it's definitely not suffocating. While this animal is typically seen with it's body parked in a hole showing only their menacing eyes and snout full of teeth. That frighteningly calm visage is deceiving because most will never know their true horror: an entirely different set of jaws that perform the feeding.
Oh, yes. Another set of jaws that actually do the eating while the primary jaws hold the prey in place. Moray Eels are the only fish discovered that possess a completely separate set of jaws used in this way. This happens in fractions of a second. With evolution obviously inspired by the work of H. R. Giger, it has given an animal a very epic eating ability. Perhaps not as frightening as many other animals that will top the list of scariest animals known to mankind, but it is definitely one of the coolest discoveries in what was thought a well known animal.
