What animals dont have tongues?

Other animals naturally have no tongues, such as sea stars, sea urchins and other echinoderms, as well as crustaceans, says Chris Mah via email. Mah is a marine invertebrate zoologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and has discovered numerous species of sea stars.
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Do crocodile have tongues?

Crocodile's tongue

Crocodiles have a membrane that holds their tongue in place on the roof of their mouth so it doesn't move. This makes it impossible for them to stick it outside of their narrow mouths.
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Do sharks have tongues?

Do sharks have tongues? Sharks have a tongue referred to as a basihyal. The basihyal is a small, thick piece of cartilage located on the floor of the mouth of sharks and other fishes. It appears to be useless for most sharks with the exception of the cookiecutter shark.
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Do any animals have no mouth?

To this day, Trichoplax remains the simplest animal known. It has no mouth, no stomach, no muscles, no blood and no veins.
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Do spiders have tongues?

Actually, no, spiders do not have a tongue in the same sense we do. Their mouthparts- chelicerae (fangs), endites or maxillae (modified bases or coxi of palpi), palpi (feelers) and labium (a sort of "tongue")-act to manipulate prey and form the mouth.
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Do fish have tongues?

Fish tongues however do not resemble the muscular tongues of humans. The tongue of a fish is formed from a fold in the floor of the mouth. In some species of bony fishes the tongue has teeth which help to hold prey items.
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Do ants have tongues?

Taste- Ants do not have a tongue, but they have finger-like palps around the mouth that have the ability to taste.
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What animal has 32 brains?

Leech has 32 brains. A leech's internal structure is segregated into 32 separate segments, and each of these segments has its own brain. Leech is an annelid.
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What animal has no brain?

Almost all animals have a brain, but there are a few exceptions. There is one organism that has no brain or nervous tissue of any kind: the sponge. Sponges are simple animals, surviving on the sea floor by taking nutrients into their porous bodies.
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Do turtles have tongues?

Turtles cannot protrude their tongues from their mouths, but they can smell. Flapping the loose skin under the chin or throat moves air over the Jacobsen's organ.
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Do birds have tongues?

First, most birds have pretty prosaic tongues. They look somewhat similar to ours but can have some interesting extra features. As shown in Figure 1, the tips can be fringed or split and the root of the tongue may have backward-facing barbs.
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Do sharks poop?

So, do sharks poop? They sure do! Every living animal that consumes food has to have a way of getting rid of waste.
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Does a hippo have a tongue?

The team found that hippo tongues have features similar to a few types of animals: odd-toed ungulates (such as donkeys, which digest plant cellulose in the intestines, not the stomach), ruminants (such as cattle, which have four-chambered stomachs) and omnivorous, non-ruminant mammals (such as pigs, which have simple ...
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Do dinosaurs have tongues?

Based on similarities they found between dinosaur and crocodilian hyoid bones, the researchers found that dinosaurs' tongues were probably like those of alligators and crocodiles—firmly attached to the floor of their mouths.
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Do snakes have tongues?

Snakes use their tongues for collecting chemicals from the air or ground. The tongue does not have receptors to taste or smell. Instead, these receptors are in the vomeronasal, or Jacobson's Organ, which is in the roof of the mouth.
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What animal has 1000 teeth?

There are more than 100 fish teeth in the ocean for every single animal tooth on land! Most dolphins have 96 teeth and whales have more than 1,000.
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What animal lives the longest?

The Greenland shark has the longest known life span of all vertebrates, estimated to be between 300 and 500 years. Found in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, the species can reach an astonishing 21 feet in length and mostly eats fish, but has been spotted hunting seals.
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What animal has the biggest brain?

The sperm whale has the biggest brain of any animal species, weighing up to 20 pounds (7 to 9 kilograms). Larger brains don't necessarily make a smarter mammal. But as mammals evolved, many groups, from Primates to Carnivora, have shown independent increases in brain size.
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What animal has 25000 teeth?

Snails: Even though their mouths are no larger than the head of a pin, they can have over 25,000 teeth over a lifetime – which are located on the tongue and continually lost and replaced like a shark!
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What animal never dies?

The 'immortal' jellyfish, Turritopsis dohrnii

To date, there's only one species that has been called 'biologically immortal': the jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii. These small, transparent animals hang out in oceans around the world and can turn back time by reverting to an earlier stage of their life cycle.
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What animal has pink blood?

One group of segmented marine worms has pink blood. This is because the molecule that carries the oxygen is a type of blood pigment, known as hemerythrin, which is described as pink or purple. A few species of segmented worms don't have any oxygen-carrying molecules at all, so their blood is colourless.
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Do ants fart?

Yes. In insects, we usually call it the “gut,” but it does more or less the same things in insects that intestines do in humans. Third, does the gas an insect produces come out of its anus? Probably.
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Do ants pee?

No, ants do not pee. In fact, most insects don't pee. All the waste that needs to be expelled comes out of one hole as one waste. Their poops aren't wholly solid, though, because there is a moistness to them due to liquid content.
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Can flies remove their head?

A female fly uses a superlong proboscis tipped with a bladed cutting organ to surgically remove the victim's head. The fly then drags the head away and either feeds on the goo and brain or lays an egg inside.
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