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 file in ...
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 ...
Watch a snail eat a fish In this video, a cone snail uses its tongue-like proboscis to catch a fish. Then, venom immobilizes the fish so the snail can eat it. Tell me about the animals you study.