Most snails have thousands of microscopic tooth-like shapes on their ribbon-shaped, tongue-like appendage called the radula.

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 ...

They use their radula to drill through the other snail’s shell ... The Roman snail, also called the Burgundy snail, Helix pomatia, is edible and is a popular delicacy in France. In the wild it lives ...

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 ...