Discovery Channel reports:
Moray eels have two sets of fanged jaws, one to grab with and one launched from their throats to grasp their squirming victims.
The find, outlined in this week's Nature, is the first described case of a vertebrate using a second set of jaws to restrain and move prey. . . .
"The second set of jaws in a moray eel reaches up from within the throat cavity into the oral jaws and grabs the prey," lead author Rita Mehta told Discovery News.
"Once the prey has been grabbed, the jaws move the prey into the esophagus," added Mehta, a biologist at the University of California at Davis.
"When an eel bites the prey, and it drags it away, that's a moray."
Posted by: CGHill | September 05, 2007 at 07:45 PM
When it opens its maw and extends a new jaw, that's a moray.
Posted by: gail | September 05, 2007 at 08:45 PM
I saw a movie with this in it... it was called Alien.
Posted by: Miss Cellania | September 05, 2007 at 11:23 PM
If you stick your hand in a crack, and you don't get it back, that's a moray...
Posted by: kirk | September 08, 2007 at 10:02 AM
When it wiggles and bites, and causes great frights, that's a moray!
Posted by: Austin Mike | September 08, 2007 at 11:17 AM
When the pain makes you drool, cause the teeth are so cruel, that's a moray.
(gag)!
Posted by: jmikey | September 08, 2007 at 12:01 PM
When you're swimming in the sea, and an eel bites your knee that's a moray!
Posted by: BryanP | September 08, 2007 at 03:03 PM
When the jaws crush your spleen and the water turns green,
THAT'S A MORAY!
Posted by: OldTexan | September 08, 2007 at 03:18 PM
Awright, you keep this up and we're going to throw a Punalty flag on this thread...
Posted by: TheSev | September 08, 2007 at 05:06 PM
When the maw snaps your spine, like you've had too much wine, that's a moray!
Posted by: phlegmfatale | September 08, 2007 at 05:41 PM