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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 ...

Say cheese and flash us those pearly whites! While most adult humans have 32 permanent teeth, or 28 if your wisdom teeth don’t behave, you might be surprised to learn that the animal world has us well ...

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 ...

Most carnivores have teeth to grasp and ... lobster, crab, shrimp, clams, mussels, marine mollusks, and even other octopuses making up their ... There may be over 100 teeth on the radula, ...

But after a closer look, that theory fell flat, as the teeth were revealed to be remnants of T. wellsi’s last meal, inside its digestive tract. Now, the animal’s radula offers a new clue.

Snails, often underestimated, possess a remarkable 25,000 teeth, surpassing all other creatures. These microscopic teeth, located on a ribbon-like organ called the radula, aid in scraping and ...

The radula can have 10,000 of these teeth-like hooks, depending on the species. As far as vertebrates go, sharks are among the toothiest. Whale sharks, which may be big but are hardly alpha predators, ...