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 ...

Jim has decided that he will join the darkside for the Invertebrate Battle Royale. That's fine! We wouldn't want someone with such poor cognitive processes on our team. Jim's attack centers on the ...

Cone snail's strike is one of the quickest in the animal kingdom Date: August 30, 2019 Source: University of California - Irvine Summary: With the use of ultra-high-speed videography, biologists ...

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 ...

A rare iron mineral has been discovered in the teeth of a living organism for the first time – one that bears the pet name “wandering meatloaf.” They’re more commonly known as chiton, a ...

This magnified image shows the radula of a chiton, a modern-day mollusk with eight-armored shells on its back. Out of the seven specimens of the newfound Calvapilosa kroegeri mollusk, ...

In amongst the tongue-like radula, the X-ray images found the traces of a final meal. By Jonathan Amos. Science correspondent, BBC News .

Simple plants aren't always easy, proves the Radula buccinifera complex, formed of "primitive," small, moss-like plants called liverwort. Molecular and morphological evidence show that what was ...