Yep, nothing strange them. Every marine biologist, alive or past, know that sea breams that eat mainly shells have this set of teeth to tear and crush.
A much more interesting trivia is that this animal is hermaphrodyte so the journalists have lost their only chance to write something like 'mutating bisexual fish with human teeth and wearing a prison uniform, discovered'.
> that eat mainly shells have this set of teeth to tear and crush
I've heard bisexuality defined as sexual attraction towards both males and females. If your species is hermaphrodite, you arguably cannot be bisexual because there are neither males not females to be attracted to.
Yes, the teeth look human. Convergent evolution:
To many it is new. However, it's not new to me so it feels more click baity.
They’ve taken a Facebook post, and editorialized it specifically to make it sound very special.
If you wrote the same article about someone catching a salmon would you say “the fish was identified as a salmon”?
They also could have easily said “these fish are common in coastal waters, and caught and eaten all the time” but they purposefully left that out.
At the bottom of the 'article' there is a snippet:
> The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. View original post on Facebook
From top of the page it looks like standard news piece, filed under World / US & Canada. The 'article' does not mention that "it’s weird, but a known fish" as @aikinai stated in another comment. All of this is troubling.
Gee..., you can be on BBC, too!
And not useful for children, that would lost and replace their teeth in any case.
The structure of the teeth root is also different, and the mandible is much more acute triangular than ours. Not useful to replace part of a missing mandible in my opinion. Specially when you can just made a ceramic piece of the right size and shape and do a bone self-transplant.