Not all snails scour the ocean bottom for algae and muck, but some have more refined tastes. But taste is one thing, and having the tool to get that food is what gastropods do best. Snails have a ...

First, snails have jaws that they use to pull food into their mouths. But their teeth aren’t located on the jaws–they’re actually located on the radula, the snail’s version of a tongue. The radula is ...

The radula is a distinctive, chitinous feeding apparatus found in most molluscs, and its specialised tooth structures play a crucial role in the efficient processing of food. In gastropods, the ...

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 ...

Snails aren’t too picky when it comes to their meals. They’ll eat pretty much whatever they can find, from plant matter to animal waste (and, in some cases, even other snails). Like learning about ...

For someone with a lot of knowledge about wildlife crammed into my head, you would think I’d have no problem coming up with topics for these articles. However, I have to remind myself that not ...