Calm The Fuck Down, There’s A Reason For That Mountain Lion’s Extra Teeth

As you may or may not have seen multiple times on your feed, a mountain lion, killed over the new year in the U.S. state of Idaho, has got the internet in a tizzy over the fact that it has a set of fully-formed teeth growing out of its forehead.

A photo of the animal – which was observed attacking a dog on a rural property, and was then tracked through the woods and killed by hunters – went viral as balls over the weekend, thanks to its unusual deformity. 
The photo – showing “fully-formed teeth and what appears to be small whiskers growing out of hard, fur-covered tissue on the left side of the animal’s forehead” – was shared far and wide, and nobody could remotely cope.
Common responses included: 
– WTF is this freak of nature? 
– Are there more of them? 
– Are they coming for me and/or our children? 
– I AM SCARED, HOLD ME.
The Idaho Department Of Fish And Game, deciding that they’d had it with these motherfucking teeth on this motherfucking mountain lion, calmly took control of the situation, explaining several possible, totally normal reasons for the deformity. 
In a media release, they said:
“It is possible that the teeth could be the remnants of a conjoined twin that died in the womb and was absorbed into the other fetus. It is also possible that deformity was a teratoma tumor. These kinds of tumors are composed of tissue from which teeth, hair, and even fingers and toes can develop. They are rare in humans and animals.” 
Not wanting to be total party poopers, they added:
“Biologists from the southeast region of Idaho Fish and Game have never seen anything like this particular deformity before.”

So there you have it. The mystery of the mountain lion with the weird extra teeth on its forehead is, for all intents and purposes, solved. R.I.P. mate, we hardly knew ya.

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