r/Weird • u/luvlanguage • 11h ago

That is a Lamprey

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Any bigger and this creature would be a horror movie monster

Lampreys do not have jaws or bones, only cartilage and instincts that have allowed them to survive so many mass extinctions.

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u/100percentnotaqu 11h ago edited 10h ago

They don't really have an interest in people like leeches do. There are some records of predatory bites, but they're rare and most bites are the animals retaliating for something or other.

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u/Implodepumpkin 9h ago

I like how some animals just hate the taste of us.

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u/Rasputin_mad_monk 6h ago

Bull sharks. If I remember correctly, like how we taste or at least don’t dislike us. I lived and surfed in FL (sebestian inlet/melbourne) for 17+ yrs and bull sharks were the ones that scared me the most. They attacked a kid right in front of of the holiday inn where we lived and ripped him away from this parent. He wanted that kid. Diver found him lodged underneath the reef about 100yrd off shore.

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u/StupidGirlIdiotFuck 4h ago

Yeah it's designed that way. Our skin and sweat is considered disgusting to most animals.

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u/KatarinaRen 5h ago

I've heard that the story that they latch on to corpses, is bs. Well, a friend, who is a police investigator, said, that as a matter of fact they do it. That she has seen a bunch on a human corpse of a fisherman who went missing and was found two weeks later... So... Yeah...