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Let’s be clear – we’re talking about the most amount of teeth found inside the mouth of an animal at any one time, not over the entire animal's lifespan (though those numbers are pretty ...

The radula sounds like something from a horror movie -- a conveyor belt lined with hundreds of rows of interlocking teeth. In fact, radulas are found in the mouths of most molluscs, from the giant ...

In general, among Mollusks, the mouth opens into a buccal cavity. In most classes of Mollusks, the buccal cavity contains a tongue called the odontophore. The odontophore possess multiple rows of ...

They found that the roots of the teeth of a type of mollusk contain a mineral called santabarbaraite, ... The mixture appears to function to join the hard, sturdy teeth to the soft radula.

The inside of a mollusk's mouth is a fearsome sight to behold. Most mollusks, from giant squids to predatory slugs, have radulas, or tonguelike structures covered with interlocking teeth that move ...

Those teeth are covered in magnetite, the hardest, stiffest known biomineral to date: It’s as much as three times as hard as human enamel and mollusk shells. C. stelleri uses its radula, a ...

The radula houses hundreds of teeth, the patterns of which can be used to determine diet and identify species. Whilst not all molluscs have a radula, a radula cannot be found in any other group of ...

A rare iron mineral has been discovered in the teeth of a living organism for the first time – one that bears the pet name “wandering meatloaf.” They’re more commonly known as chiton, a ...

A "wandering meatloaf" mollusk may be in the same family as clams and snails, but watch out for the teeth, as new research reveals they contain rare iron. Researchers from Northwestern University ...