Many people are familiar with garden snails. However, most of us don’t know that there are a ton of different snail species in the world. In fact, there are over 40,000 distinct species of snails.

Snails are packing dozens of rows of pearly whites, with a single snail boasting anywhere between 2000 and 15,000 teeth between its jaws. Up close, the inside of a snail’s mouth looks like it ...

The Gonaxis, less than an inch long, attacks by attaching itself to the foot of the garden snail and devouring it alive with minute, filelike teeth as it retreats into its shell.

Snails use thousands of microscopic teeth to chow down on produce or wreak havoc on gardens. ... Brown garden snails are about one inch in diameter at maturity and have a brown and gray color pattern.