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[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago

This diagram is still a better love story than Twilight

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Why is the head part of the torso?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

Probably because they evolved that way

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

🎶 When a mouth opens wide, and there's more mouths inside that's a moray~🎶

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

🎶 When he bites on your thumb, and takes a chunk of your bum, that's a moray 🎶

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

🎶 Tails will swing, swim a swim a swim, swim a swim a swim, and you’ll sing Vita Bella 🎶

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

🎶 Tails will swing, swim a swim a swim, swim a swim a swim, and you’ll sing Eel-a Bella 🎶

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

Juna and her MASSIVE butt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Should do legless lizard as well, i learned that to identify this creature i need to find their butthole.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

Glass lizards have external ears. Easier to spot those right behind the jaw. Their body/head segment is pretty distinctive once you've seen a bunch side by side. At first it's difficult, but with a little practice they become easy to distinguish, like Alligator vs Crocodile.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So finally Have You Checked Your Butthole is the actual correct answer?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Skeedup baddup

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Now, are the internal organs of an eel in its tail, looping around to the butt. Or are they all more or less in the head and the tail is just muscles and bone?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 20 hours ago

*electric eel. Electric eels are not eels.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Thank you for that link. I was puzzled though when I opened it and saw a cartoon elephant.

And what's he doing, spending money?

[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 day ago (4 children)

This is a picture of a pretty small electric organ, so you can imagine the immense storage capacity eels have in their tails.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 hours ago

Eels up inside ya

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 day ago

Nature is amazing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can never feel bad about your organ being small if it's electric!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

It may be small, but it can give a jolt.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Don't we love these organic interaction?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It looks like other eels don't necessarily follow the mostly tail body plan of electric eels; morays seem to be less than 50% tail by length

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

that would be because electric eels are fish, not eels.

On my phone but see phylogeny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_eel

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

This order is more closely related to catfish.

Catfished again!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My all-time favorite fish is the ropefish. Just look how happy they are!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Adorbs, but can't hold a candle to the garden eel. Mostly because they both live underwater.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Silly creature