Imagine going to the dentist with this set of teeth! These are teeth located on a snail’s “tongue,” or radula, also called a rasper, which is constantly licking the ground to scrape up and transport ...

Learn about snails with a roundup of snail facts. Discover what snails eat, when they get shells, how long they sleep and how ...

‘Although that doesn’t stop me from going out in the middle of the night to try to remove and relocate them,’ Jon confesses. Slugs and snails eat using a tongue-like structure called a radula. This ...

Most snails have thousands of microscopic tooth-like shapes on their ribbon-shaped, tongue-like appendage called the radula. Once food gets in their mouth, the snail’s radula rips it up like a ...

Frank, who wished to keep his last name private, picked up the shell-looking item and admired it. He thought about taking it home as a souvenir for his first trip to a coral reef, but decided against ...

A snorkeler in Egypt's Red Sea had a near escape after encountering one of the most venomous animals on earth.

Then, the snail uses its toothlike radula to drill a perfectly round hole into the clam, which takes up to four days, as it can only drill about 1/64th of an inch a day. However, the snail speeds ...

From microscopic bivalves to giant squid, from common garden snails to hydrothermal spring ... no eyes and a radula, which is a specialized organ for feeding," Chen continues.