iirc those are skulls of someone with some disease, not toddler skulls
Toddler teeth
Submitted 8 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/060af047-2fd2-4a97-83b3-c09a4ae78139.jpeg
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SwordInStone@lemmy.world 8 months ago
scytale@lemm.ee 8 months ago
What happens to the spaces the adult teeth take up once they get out?
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 8 months ago
It calcifies and turns into bone
the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net 8 months ago
Bone grows in behind it.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I don’t understand, why would they get “blocked by an instance filter for hexbear.net”? That doesn’t even seem relevant to the question…
Dasus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is two days old a comment, but I literally just copy pasted your comment into google, and apologies for linking deddit, but it used to have quality answers.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Man, I wish new teeth would grow there. Just get a new set every decade or so.
ElHexo@hexbear.net 8 months ago
The adult teeth are covered by a layer of bone (which has been removed to see inside in the pictures here)
SoyViking@hexbear.net 8 months ago
I feel like too few people truly grasps the body horror of teeth. Those fuckers are terrifying.
huf@hexbear.net 8 months ago
bones are supposed to be wrapped in meat and skin. not poking through! that’s normally the sign of a terrible injury.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 8 months ago
commiserating…
Say it ain’t so, I will not go
Shard@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Turn the lights off, carry me home
CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 8 months ago
Commiserating
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This is how they figured out that Cathagians performed toddler sacrifices
Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 8 months ago
Okay, that’s enough Lemmy for me today.