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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Nothing would persuade me to put so much as a toe in the water. I was traumatosed by Jaws as a kid.
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I thought they shed their teeth in rows – bringing up a new row of now-not-so-sharp-teeth?
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Good point. Hmm?
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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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