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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 78 points 2 months 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.

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months 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.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That reads like some Rick and Morty interdimensional cable shit

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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