Posts Tagged ‘Mollusc Teeth’

Ancient fossils reveal how the mollusc got its teeth

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 squid to the garden snail. Now, a “prototype” radula found in 500-million-year-old fossils studied by University of Toronto graduate student […]