SciShow: The Terrifying Fish with Transparent Teeth

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Content of the Lesson: The deep-sea dragonfish is a predator that lives deep in the Pacific Ocean. Like many other deep sea predators, it's got an oversized jaw and a bioluminescent appendage to attract prey, but it does have one weird (and strangely useful) difference: its teeth are transparent! Thumbnail Credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.cell.com/matter/fulltext/S2590-2385(19)30035-9 https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-06/uoc--rdw060419.php https://www.fishbase.se/summary/Aristostomias-scintillans.html https://www.osapublishing.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-32-4-411 https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328485-400-why-deep-sea-dragonfish-have-such-extraordinary-jaws/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079678612000416 https://biomimicry.org/biomimicry-examples/ http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~ckenaley/Kenaley_2012_Dragonfish_feeding.pdf


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