Is this believable or simply someone speculating

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Pufferpunk, we had a bit of a chat in eel feeding, you might find this somewhat interesting > I can not remember where I found this, I was doing some simple research and found this I think.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070905/sc_nm/eels_jaws_dc_1;_ylt=Am17X7Ou4HGVaB68bscOBPcE1vAI

In this article i tend not to believe it for what the person must be talking about is that many eels have in their upper jaw two rows of teeth for were not watching a movie called the thing to which a creature changes shapes to all types of species. It makes no sense and I never seen nothing to support the idea of a hiding jaw as if a eel has two for if this were true, then a large trigger fish wouldn't make so easy an escape by trashing about as had as it can and that the eel what if a green or tess moray gives up in that catch and let it go. And that is due to the fact that the eel is concern of injury. For if its like that little article explains it that the eel has two jaws, that one lays back ready to strike, the trigger wouldn't make its escape as its often be done.

So my understanding in what one is thinking is that the eels second row of teeth at its upper jaw is this second jaw that comes out which is nonsense for this would had been learned a long time ago for many eel researchers have been studying the eel and their skeleton structure as far back as in the mid 18 century.

For the data that was collect at that early time was confirmed and updated with other detail facts, but nothing like a beast that opens it jaws wide and a second jaw would appear.

If anything like this is true, its not with that many species but I would have to see more facts on it then just one person say so.

I'm going to see if I can contact the people of this article and ask for a copy of this film taking.

Buddy ><{{{{">
 
Interesting...

The article makes it sound like this has actually been confirmed. It even states there's a write-up in the journal Nature, which may not be the strictest scientific journal publication, but it still requires some sort of peer / editorial review before printing an article.

I sincerely hope that it's not false science or some kind of spoof story.
 
Interesting...

The article makes it sound like this has actually been confirmed. It even states there's a write-up in the journal Nature, which may not be the strictest scientific journal publication, but it still requires some sort of peer / editorial review before printing an article.

I sincerely hope that it's not false science or some kind of spoof story.


It would as well give me a serious of restudying and confirming for if anything like this is true even if it be fact for just a handful of eel species, it would place me in a crazy situation for just who do I talk too? Who will I contact for specific facts.

For all the other known facts I studied of the eel has been researched for more then 150 years and nothing of it were every changed other then updated with more details.

Buddy
 
Looks like this is a for-real story...

Here's the news article on the Nature website:
http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070903/full/070903-11.html

Here's the abstract to the actual publication (viewing the full text requires a membership):
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v449/n7158/abs/nature06062.html

But, the page with the abstract does list the e-mail address of the primary researcher / author. If you e-mail her and explain your interest, she may be willing to send you an electronic copy of the full article (some researchers are nice like that, others won't which might require you to try to buy a hardcopy of the journal).
 
fsn77, Thank you for the links and who i might try to speak to on this and if anybody else finds anything to add to this, please paste the link here so that I might have all this together no matter how small it looks to you.

I saved the links to my Moray Eels Research folder and will give them a going over for in a short while I will call Niko and right after will drive out to my new lfs for Niko agreed with me to do what Im going to look to do now.

I will that is read them fast for in ten minutes I will make the phone call>
 
There are several articles rgarding this. If you do a search on "pharyngeal jaws" you will come up with a number of papers written on the subject.

morayjawsxray.jpg


It is a very unique attribute to this species.

Here is a video of what looks to be a Muraena retifera feeding.

http://www.livescience.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=040907MorayEels
 
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^^^I think you mean family, not species. All Muraenids (and many, many other fish) have pharyngeal jaws--just not telescopic ones. This feeding mechanism has been suspected in Muraenids for some time, though. I suppose it finally leaked out to the media at large that it was true. Things like this, for whatever reason, take a while to get out to the public--I have seen it in some ichthyological journals for a little while, now.
 
That video was wild! As you were describing the 2nd jaw, I was thiunnking of the movie, "Alien" & then to see that's just what they were calling in in that film.
 
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