Cookie Cutters! And not in a good way.

Today's lesson in the creepy crawly nastiness that the ocean sometimes produces is yet another hilarious example of poor-naming-obviousness.  

Meet the cookie cutter shark.  When you look at them straight on, they look even deceptively happy, smiling almost.  But no, they are mean little suckers.  Literally.  They will suction themselves onto the unfortunate prey, and with their circular jaws, cut out a circular chunk of flesh from the poor host animal.

To make things worse...they're tiny little buggers!  So they will scar its victims, not necessarily kill.  But, they're kind of wimps, are ugly...and not that smart.  The marks of the cookie cutters have been found on manmade objects, most notably submarine parts.  

Additionally, an odd feature to these sharks is their fleshy lips and jaw structure.  The lower jaws contain the large more active teeth with the upper jaw housing the smaller digesting teeth.  Incidentally most sharks have the rows of replaceable teeth that fall out after attacking prey.  The cookie cutter's teeth actually fall in, and the shark digests its own teeth for calcium. 

So listen...not everything can be pretty, and not everything can be cuddly like a walrus...but really, ocean?  Really??  Ewww.