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 ...

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 ...

You’ll love learning facts about fireflies, too. Snails do have teeth—a whole lot of them. Through a structure called a “radula” in their mouths, snails pry off pieces of what they’re ...

Slugs and snails eat using a tongue-like structure called a radula. This conveyor belt of tiny ridges acts like a piece of sandpaper that the snail rolls over its food. ‘You might see a leaf that’s ...

Commonly found in coral reefs or hiding in the sand, cone snails have a "harpoon-like" tooth, called a radula, that extends a tube and injects toxic venom. It is used to hunt and paralyze fish and ...

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 ...

The snails are highly venomous and capable of stinging using a modified radula tooth, shaped like a dart to thrust out from the head and barb its victims. It uses this mechanism to hunt and ...