Bartholomew Beans The Third

^ blame this dude for the connects

That area is your choanae, your internal nostrils. And Kenichthys here is the one to blame for why they're inside your mouth rather than below your eyes.

Most fish have 2 pairs of nostrils; 1 front pair to let water in, and a back pair to let water out. Our ancestor here is the transition point where the rear nostrils went from outside the mouth to inside. It's rear nostrils are in the tooth-row! As for what ecological pressure made that arrangement advantageous I have no idea. I'm no fishologist but if I were to hazard a guess it may have something to do with being able to force water through the nasal sack via the mouth or gills rather than just swimming

It's possible to get ham stuck in your nasal no-ham zone because evolution doesn't make animals perfect, it makes them good-enough. And at one point having your 2nd nostrils in line with your teeth was good enough.

Sources:

Zhu, M. & Ahlberg, P. E. (2004) The origin of the internal nostril of tetrapods. Nature 432, 94-97

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These 82 children were then transported to the of extermination camp 70 kilometers away. Once they arrived, they were gassed to death. This remarkable sculpture by Marie Uchytilová commemorates this massacre.

A group of Bronze Sculptures, paying tribute to the children who died. Its construction was decided in 1969 by the woman sculptor, Marie Uchytilova. As a symbol of an imaginary tomb of the 13 million most innocent victims of the war - children, she chose as model, 82 children of lidice asphyxiated in the gas rooms of chelmno.

She took 20 years to make this beautiful sculpture because she used the vintage documents to reproduce the faces of the missing children and to represent them according to their exact size.