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Answer by Kurtalmakthekoboldkiaser for How feasible would non-jawed...
Well if the outer limbs keep filling the role of that jaws do you could most likely keep the mouth an muscular orifice that does the last bit of grinding and separation of the meat similar to what I...
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Answer by Mike Serfas for How feasible would non-jawed vertebrates be on land?
Maxilla and mandible like in arthropods, etc.As illustrated in this article about the movie Predator, this is an iconic design for an alien face (pretty common - I remember a poodle with this design in...
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The main problem here would be that you have essentially many radulas. A radula is essentially a "tongue with teeth" found in many mollusks. That alone should show how good it is for getting food, with...
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If these jawless creatures have a 2-boned jaw like fish on earth, they will likely evolve to have horizontally opening jaws, similar to a hagfish, with the tentacles folding inside the jaw when not in...
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In my alien world life has evolved very convergently with life on Earth. Carbon-based lifeforms managed to evolve multicellularity and evolved a lineage of organisms in line with early fish, however on...
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