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unusual facts about incisor


Incisor

In elephants, the upper incisors are modified into curved tusks (unlike with Narwhals, where it is a canine that develops into a straight and twisted tusk).


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Maya jaguar gods

Usually called 'Jaguar God of the Underworld', he has been assumed to be the 'Night Sun' - the shape supposedly taken by the sun (Kinich Ahau) during his nightly journey through the underworld - for reason of having the large eyes and filed incisor that also occur with the sun deity, and of sometimes evincing a k 'in infix.

Shrewlike rat

Incisors are described as needle-like and mandibles as delicate (Nowak, 1999; Balete et al., 2007).


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