Pictured up above is a Leatherback sea turtle, which is the largest of all living turtles and the fourth largest modern reptile of them all. These bad boys can grow up to 7-feet long and weigh as much as 1,500 pounds... but it's not their size you should be afraid of.
What you're about to see is an image of the inside of a Leatherback's mouth, which is hands down the most horrifying oral cavity of any creature on this planet we call Earth. You have been warned...
Yep. That's what the cute and innocent looking turtle at the top of this post is hiding within its beak, and we must thank Oddity Central for forever shattering our belief that turtles are totally harmless. Those razor sharp teeth, called 'papillae,' line the Leatherback's mouth and esophagus and continue all the way down to its gut, ensuring that nothing that goes into the turtle's mouth ever finds its way out.
Have no fear, however, because Leatherbacks don't have much interest in feasting on us humans. Their diet consists mostly of jellyfish, and they've been known to consume about 73% of their own body weight in a single day - now that's a whole lot of jellyfish!
Why the hell are their mouths filled with so many teeth, you might be wondering? Jellyfish are pretty slippery, you see, and the razor-sharp rows of papillae prevent them from slipping out of the turtle's mouth, and escaping their horrifying demise. A true death trap, in every sense of the term.
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