To assist in this process, morays have a second unique set of teeth located in the back of their throat called the pharyngeal jaw. Some fish also possess pharyngeal jaws, but they remain static and are used to further process food while it is swallowed. In morays, the pharyngeal jaw can ...
Unusually long muscles ran from the jaws to the moray eel’s skull, for example. Mehta began to wonder what would happen when those muscles contracted. “If these muscles shortened, they could pull this jaw really far forward,” she said. “But then we thought, ‘Oh, come on, does ...
Some species have smoother teeth to help breakdown prey with shells, and some Moray Eels are able to lay their back jaw’s teeth almost flat to help their food slide through their throats. Fishing and Cooking Though some people eat moray eel, this is inadvisable as the eel often is ci...
Like all morays, its bite has a weak release mechanism and therefore its jaw must be pried off (even in death during cases of human bites). Contrary to popular belief, their bite is not poisonous naturally, but may cause infections because of the toxic bacteria-laden algae that they eat. ...