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This odd animal has one of the fastest bites in the world

This Hairy Frogfish’s Bite is Too Fast For Slow-Motion

From Smithsonian Channel’s “Great Blue Wild: Life in the Muck:”


The speed of a hairy frogfish’s bite is the result of a vacuum in its mouth that can suck in its prey in just 1/6000th of a second. It’s so fast that even slow-motion video struggles to capture it.


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