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Down the Hatch

Fish teeth demonstrate that you really are what you eat

Stickleback Mouth: Photo by University of Leicester/Mark Purnell

Welcome to the prey’s-eye view of the three-spined stickleback. Mark Purnell, a research fellow at the University of Leicester in England, stained the fish to highlight the skeleton and examined surface textures on the teeth. Each tooth is about the width of a human hair, and its texture indicates what the fish ate.

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