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There’s nothing funny about a shark with a cavity

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What is your favorite animal?



Sharks. Those glamorous, fin-flipping divas of the deep. The rulers of the ocean. The creatures who make every beachgoer reconsider their life choices at the mere sight of a dorsal fin. And what’s their secret weapon? Teeth. Lots of teeth. Teeth that grow back like it’s nobody’s business. Fearsome, terrifying, cinematic teeth.

But, brace yourself. Scientists are waving a little red flag. The ocean’s getting more acidic. And those teeth? They might get structurally weaker. Break more easily. Suddenly, the sharks’ legendary bite could go from “apocalyptic Jaws-style terror” to “ouch, that nibbled me a little.”

Can you imagine? Fluoride treatments for sharks. Twice-yearly dental check-ups. Flossing lessons for a great white. Maybe a Shark Invisalign trend emerges “Get your bite back, darling, it’s crucial for top predator credibility!”

Here’s the existential crisis. If sharks lose their fearsome chomp, what happens to the top of the ocean’s food chain? Do dolphins suddenly start doing synchronized swimming while sharks sip kelp smoothies? Does Sharknado become a reality TV competition instead of a terror franchise? Are we no longer scared of “Jaws” and instead anxiously awaiting “Shark with Braces: The Revenge”?

Part of me is relieved. Fewer sharp teeth, fewer shark attacks, fewer dramatic beach escapes. But the other part? I mourn the mythos. The terror. The pure, unadulterated fear that makes popcorn taste better during a summer blockbuster.

So here’s the takeaway. Be kind to the ocean, or someday our nightmares will star slightly embarrassed sharks. And trust me, there’s nothing funny about a shark with a cavity. I think. But who knows…

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  4. Ah Yes Sharks Magnificent Creatures Animals/Fish of What Other
    Wise Might be Mythology Yet They Are Real Now For Close
    to A Half-A-Billion Years With Even Some Species With

    Virgin Births Indeed Whatever it Takes to Extend
    The Species Stay Including Yes Limitless Teeth
    30,000 to 50,000 Replaced in A Year Even

    Replaced in 24 Hours Champions they
    are of ‘Stem Cell Biology’ With No

    Technological Aids At All

    Born with So Many
    Natural Tools They Are

    With Electromagnetic
    Search Abilities to Find
    Food Underneath the Ocean

    Floor Indeed ‘Marvel’ For Real
    Creatures They Are For Real

    Hehe Bet Even Google
    Can’t Achieve That Feat

    Not Even the AI Mode

    Sadly my First Encounter

    With a Shark Was the Summer
    of 1975 Freshly Turning Fifteen

    With my Restricted Driver’s License
    Truly Having Trouble to Drive after that

    Movie ‘Jaws’ First Really Believable Gory Movie
    i Saw Like That Particularly Then Spending So Many
    Days Months and Years Swimming at Navarre Beach

    Oh Dear Lord
    Then the Movie
    Yes ‘Jaws 2’ Came
    to Our Holiday Inn
    on Navarre Beach i Still

    Remember Roy Schneider
    Working On His “John Boehner”
    Tan Before John even Tanned His
    Way to Speaker of the House in the US

    Yet anyway He was every bit and More tan as THAT

    Just Lounging on the Beach All by Himself Getting the
    Required
    Look for
    the Movie i Guess

    Anyway the Chances of Getting
    Bit by a Shark are in Reality That
    of Getting Struck by Lightning Now

    Yep Around 1 in 3.75 MiLLioN For Shark
    Attacks on Humans Versus 1 in 500,000

    For Yikes Lightning Strikes Yet the Reality

    Is a Great White Shark About 15 Feet Long
    Recently Washed up on Navarre Beach Dead

    So Yes they
    Do Exist
    in Parts
    Around Here

    in NW Florida

    Yet Acid in the Waters
    of the Ocean Causing
    Cavities in Teeth of Shark

    Are Likely a Sign More of
    Human’s Stay on Earth Than

    Sharks Armed With All their

    Mythological
    Natural tools

    That Yes Are No Myth
    At All the ‘True Scotsmen’

    And Yes Women Sharks of the Deep Are

    With Endless Toothy Grins for Now At Least…

    Been Around Longer
    Than Trees That
    Humans Require Yes
    to Breathe Oxygen Along
    With Oceans too Of Course

    Anyway my Favorite Animal to Study
    is the Human Animal as They Bring me

    All of This Interesting Information About Sharks hehe

    Yep Cheers
    to Ever Lasting
    Chomps The Real
    ‘Eye of the Tiger’ to Survive

    Yep It’s ‘Shark Week’ Year around

    for
    me
    At Least..:)

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