Leopard seal skulls and bear skulls are too similar for my liking. Their lower jaw is MASSIVE, even for a predator. Their teeth? Guys? Holy f**k, their teeth? (TW: slightly gross uncleaned skull) Nothing can erase from my mind the image of these terrible fuzzy Jeff the Killer beasts *smiling.* Their heads average 14.5 inches long (awful), with jaws that can open to 160 degrees - significantly larger and any one human limb or head (I hate this). Shocking no one: this is usually a sign of aggression. The corners of their extremely long mouths are permanently curved upward and sometimes they smile. Females have been measured to top 11.5 feet long and weighed at over 1,100 pounds of pure, flesh-ripping terror. These snake-headed murder puppies are (on average) 10-foot-long 600-pound prehistoric killing machines that see any warm-blooded animal smaller than them as prey. I think it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing thing, but instead of a wolf it’s a flipping prehistoric water monster.Įdit: I have learned more horrible facts about the leopard seal, a creature I now worship out of fear there may be one under my bed. And in the right lighting their eyes are terrifying. The sound they make fills me with a very primal fear. Their jaws open to almost 180 degrees and they have a bite force comparable to a bull shark. They’re large, fast, basically silent predators outmatched in their environment only by the Orca.
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