The scariest movie, IMHO, was
Alien, a masterpiece on how to scare the living crap out of you. Interestingly, the alien had a
pharyngeal inner jaw, like that of the Moray Eel, able to shoot out and kill it's intended prey with exquisite efficiency. Seems there's a tiny predator able to harpoon its prey by launching its head and drawing the victim in via a contractible neck membrane prior to tearing the prey item apart in milliseconds, something never seen until now.
The most recent natural phenomenon brought to light by microcinematography is both wonder and horror and involves one of humanity’s greatest foes: the mosquito.
Videos released with a paper published Tuesday in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America reveal the terrifying anatomies used by mosquito larvae to feed on other insects. The researchers found that two mosquito species in their larval stage caught prey by shooting their heads away from their bodies like harpoons, mouths open, and reeling in their victims with a thin neck membrane. The whole process occurs in a fraction of a second, and was unobserved until now.
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