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Limpet teeth are used to break down rock so that the sea-going snail can get to the food it needs. Limpet teeth are made of nanofibers encased in a protein mix, along with an iron-containing crystal ...

Here’s a look at 7 animals known for having the sharpest teeth in the natural world, with fascinating details on what makes ...

The radula on the other hand…is a design marvel in its simplicity and adaptability. There are seven basic types (with variants on each) that vary in number, arrangement, and structure of teeth: ...

Particularly savvy drug enthusiasts may have heard of making tea from Radula, a member of the liverwort family whose effects are similar to those of cannabis. For anybody who hasn’t, you may be ...

Their teeth are one of the hardest materials in nature and are attached to a flexible tongue-like structure called a radula. This mosaic image shows the developmental process of a chiton radula.

Ancient creatures nicknamed "alien goldfish" had toothy, tongue-like structures in their guts that they fired out of their bodies to catch prey 330 million years ago, but they weren't so different ...

"When studying movement in animals, we found that latch and muscular sphincter structures like the one found in the cone snail's hydraulically propelled radula are capable of producing movements ...

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 ...