With humans our teeth are designed and aligned pretty orderly so we can’t do this…but when I look at something like an Angler fish..I wonder how it isn’t constantly sinking those sharp ass teeth into itself every time it takes a bite.
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Predators’ jaws move almost completely up and down. They have very little to no sideways movement which is used for grinding in herbivores and would cause teeth that project sharply to slice their mouths . If you look at a crocodile snout and see the teeth are visible you will notice that they fit in indentations on the skin. The mouth is never open so long that the flesh can grow into where the tooth fits so that the tooth will cut it. Predators also have less cheeky faces since the food is largely swallowed in larger chunks. Look at a horse skull v a wolf skull and images of them alive with their mouths open. When the wolf opens its mouth you can see all the teeth. When a horse opens its mouth all the way you do not see the giant grinders in back which have cheeks there to hold in food that is being ground up.
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