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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 41 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Obligatory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasselled_wobbegong

[–] fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev 32 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The tasselled wobbegong has been reported to bite and kill humans unprovoked

hol' up

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 46 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

With several records of apparently unprovoked attacks on people, the tasselled wobbegong has a reputation beyond other wobbegongs for aggressive behavior.

Is such a fucking funny sentence to me.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

That reads like some Rick and Morty interdimensional cable shit

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

"The vicious.. tongles of the tasselled wobbegong turn into... teeth, and they, chomp, on the wobbegong's prey."

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 13 points 4 hours ago

Normally when I think of wobbegongs I think about cute, maybe a little strange-looking but otherwise harmless creatures. But then I remember that the tasselled wobbegong exists.