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A fish with thick lips and teeth has the internet disturbed

Lips! And teeth.
 By 
Tim Marcin
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Listen: We're all a little bored and going a little stir-crazy, what with much of the world locked down amid a global pandemic.

So yes, people did get really fascinated with a fish that had nice lips.

Specifically, people really enjoyed this lipped and toothed fish posted by the Twitter user Raff_Nasir earlier in July.


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"Her lips are hotter than mine," the tweet reads in Indonesian.

The post with the odd fish — identified by Vice as a triggerfish — went viral, racking up more than 14,000 likes. While yes, the a triggerfish can have human-like teeth, they aren't typically this, well, nice.

The New York Post even went as far as to say it... aroused... social media. The internet, of course, responded by meme-ing the hell out of the be-lipped fish and making lots of jokes. Here are a few:

Well.... alright then. There is your fish with teeth news for the day.

Topics Animals

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Tim Marcin
Associate Editor, Culture

Tim Marcin is an Associate Editor on the culture team at Mashable, where he mostly digs into the weird parts of the internet. You'll also see some coverage of memes, tech, sports, trends, and the occasional hot take. You can find him on Bluesky (sometimes), Instagram (infrequently), or eating Buffalo wings (as often as possible).

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