The fossil dated to ~99 million years ago preserves a hell ant, Ceratomyrmex ellenbergeri, grasping its prey (a nymph of the cockroach relative Caputoraptor elegans) in a manner that is only possible through vertical mandible movement.

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MANDIBLE (old art)

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Unique feeding behaviour: snail-eating snakes extract soft body of the prey using their mandibles 🐌🐍

Kojima et al 2020 Mandibular sawing in a snail-eating
https://t.co/IyEvPLytB2

📹👇Video (from the supplementary material)
https://t.co/BTxPzScng9

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I WANNA KNOW BOUT THEM SECONDARY MOUTHS-
They usually are a second line of defense for their eye organs. they usually form when a human body/head is fused to an animal's when the shade is forming a body. Tarsus' secondary mouth is a fusion of a locust mandible and a human jaw.

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For real, I just wanna make out with a Sangheili with my head between those mandibles and that monstrous tongue deep throating me

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My Phobos facecanon is a fluffy moth man. He’s got mandibles and grows a neon green winter coat. (ft. Meouch as the other member of team fuzzy)

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and then for ppl without twitter, by their AF un: cement, mandiblemaniac, mooboo & graydeering

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The mandible problem: the mandible is a fixed link between molars and incisors/canines. Any movement of the mandible will automatically move the other teeth. How can the mandible perform both functions without these mutually impairing each other ? Solutions to be shown soon!

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Mousefalk bard, me, pencil, 2019
Bard with lyre. I got some advices from my little community to use some natural things in lyre. And mandibles lyre is here. You can stat this one if you want.

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MAXIME: ~MxMargarine
ALETA:
LURKEO: ~MandibleManiac
DESPITE: ~shobrisu

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Claimed

I'm back for a bit. Sorry for the absence. Been pretty busy.
Anyways, here's some Mandible.

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Why are your steering wheels bugs with mandibles? Fascinating! Tic-Toc-Tic-Toc...

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buggity boo, conflicted if I should settle with this or traditional mandibles

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do you think Tarsus kisses Brute's neck sometimes when they fuck- I've always thought that if Tarsus kissed Brute's neck brute would get nervous, because Tarsus' mouth is behind his massive pincer mandible.
And Tarsus is known to clamp when he flinches.

https://t.co/3Bkr8xT8ex

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Candipede usually transforms to be the star of the Circus' animal shows- tho he's a silly beans who forgets that not all of them have mandibles and extra claws

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Though this alien's language
Is not understandable
It's clear that he's skilled
At applying those mandibles!

Belated commission pic for of his leather daddy from outer space!

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