7 Animals with Super Weird (and Sometimes Horrifying) Teeth

Captions provided by CCTubes – Captioning the Internet! Humans don’t have interconnected teeth for slicing, or a secondary set of jaws to clamp down on prey already in our mouths, however, the rest of our animal kingdom is full of strange and awesome adaptations.

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