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From the Ted Talk by Darien Satterfield: Real-life "Alien" jaws

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Fortunately some fishes can change their sraodecny teeth to match a new diet over several years. This fitililbxey allows fish to adapt and find food in a huge vtieary of aiaqutc eetnvnnrmois. Some pharyngeal jaws have formed to eat food too hard for most feshis. caiilofnra Sheephead use pointed teeth from their oral jaws to pry urchins off rocks before crushing their spiny exteriors in strong pharyngeal jaws that have fsued with the bnoes of their skulls. Other fish prioritize eating huge quantities of food. The pharyngeal jaws of grass carp have two bone cmntpooens that move in unison to pull plant life into their stomachs, consuming over 18 kmiagolrs of saeeewd a day. Other pharyngeal jaws are adapted to suit incredibly specific circumstances. Consider this species of pearlfish that lives inside sea cucumbers and feeds on their guts.

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Fortunately some fishes can change their _________ teeth to match a new diet over several years. This ___________ allows fish to adapt and find food in a huge _______ of _______ ____________. Some pharyngeal jaws have formed to eat food too hard for most ______. __________ Sheephead use pointed teeth from their oral jaws to pry urchins off rocks before crushing their spiny exteriors in strong pharyngeal jaws that have _____ with the _____ of their skulls. Other fish prioritize eating huge quantities of food. The pharyngeal jaws of grass carp have two bone __________ that move in unison to pull plant life into their stomachs, consuming over 18 _________ of _______ a day. Other pharyngeal jaws are adapted to suit incredibly specific circumstances. Consider this species of pearlfish that lives inside sea cucumbers and feeds on their guts.

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  1. california
  2. kilograms
  3. aquatic
  4. fishes
  5. flexibility
  6. fused
  7. variety
  8. bones
  9. secondary
  10. environments
  11. components
  12. seaweed

Original Text


Fortunately some fishes can change their secondary teeth to match a new diet over several years. This flexibility allows fish to adapt and find food in a huge variety of aquatic environments. Some pharyngeal jaws have formed to eat food too hard for most fishes. California Sheephead use pointed teeth from their oral jaws to pry urchins off rocks before crushing their spiny exteriors in strong pharyngeal jaws that have fused with the bones of their skulls. Other fish prioritize eating huge quantities of food. The pharyngeal jaws of grass carp have two bone components that move in unison to pull plant life into their stomachs, consuming over 18 kilograms of seaweed a day. Other pharyngeal jaws are adapted to suit incredibly specific circumstances. Consider this species of pearlfish that lives inside sea cucumbers and feeds on their guts.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
pharyngeal jaws 7
oral jaw 3
early fish 2
oral jaws 2


Important Words


  1. adapt
  2. adapted
  3. aquatic
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  5. bones
  6. california
  7. carp
  8. change
  9. circumstances
  10. components
  11. consuming
  12. crushing
  13. cucumbers
  14. day
  15. diet
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  17. eating
  18. environments
  19. exteriors
  20. feeds
  21. find
  22. fish
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  24. flexibility
  25. food
  26. formed
  27. fortunately
  28. fused
  29. grass
  30. guts
  31. hard
  32. huge
  33. incredibly
  34. jaws
  35. kilograms
  36. life
  37. lives
  38. match
  39. move
  40. oral
  41. pearlfish
  42. pharyngeal
  43. plant
  44. pointed
  45. prioritize
  46. pry
  47. pull
  48. quantities
  49. rocks
  50. sea
  51. seaweed
  52. secondary
  53. sheephead
  54. skulls
  55. species
  56. specific
  57. spiny
  58. stomachs
  59. strong
  60. suit
  61. teeth
  62. unison
  63. urchins
  64. variety
  65. years