define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true);{"id":493,"date":"2008-10-15T20:26:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T03:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/?p=628"},"modified":"2008-10-15T20:26:18","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T03:26:18","slug":"now-class-this-is-what-the-inside-of-a-sharks-mouth-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/15\/now-class-this-is-what-the-inside-of-a-sharks-mouth-looks-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Now class, this is what the inside of a shark’s mouth looks like…"},"content":{"rendered":"

[pause] I’m glad you all liked my last entry and found it entertaining. You all found it about a hundred thousand times more funny than I did.<\/p>\n

I’m currently studying for my vertebrate biology course. Specifically jaw suspension. For example “Amphistyly”. Do you know what that is? It is seen in primitive fish, and seen in 6-gilled sharks that are found in deep sea areas. The first two gill arches are used in the following way: the first one is connected to the skull, the other is connected to the hyomandibular. There is a looser connection. Go jaws. The next is Hyostyly (ooooooh, ahhhhhhhh), a type of jaw suspension found in most fish. The hyomandibular is braced and suppots the jaw, but this whole thing is loose and more ‘dynamic’ and BOOM: the jaw can swing forward and go ‘chomp-chomp-chomp’ on the prey.<\/p>\n

And this was your Wednesday October 15th 2008 lesson in the jaw suspension in some sharks and fish. Join me tomorrow when I start talking about the differences in cranial kinesis. [pause] Stop that yawning, right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[pause] I’m glad you all liked my last entry and found it entertaining. You all found it about a hundred thousand times more funny than I did. I’m currently studying for my vertebrate biology course. Specifically jaw suspension. For example “Amphistyly”. Do you know what that is? It is seen in primitive fish, and seen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imaginarysunshine.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}