Which animal has teeth on its tongue?

A snail's teeth are arranged in rows on its tongue.
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Do any animals have teeth on their tongue?

One of the strangest type of land creature's teeth is the common garden snail. This creature has over 14,000 teeth! Snails have a band of thousands of microscopic teeth on their tongue.
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What animals have teeth in their throat?

Pharyngeal teeth are teeth in the pharyngeal arch of the throat of cyprinids, suckers, and a number of other fish species otherwise lacking teeth.
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What animal has teeth on the roof of its mouth?

Sheepshead Fish

These North American fish have teeth that look strikingly similar to human teeth. Even more bizarre, they have a row of teeth on the roof of their mouths! Their mouth structure allows them to enjoy a diet of oysters and clams.
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Which animal has 14000 teeth in its mouth?

Snails have more teeth than any other animal! Unlike other animals, snails' teeth are on their tongue! Different kinds of snails have different amounts of teeth but the garden snail has about 14,000 teeth!
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What animal has 25,000 teeth?

A snail's mouth is no larger than the head of a pin, but can have over 25,000 teeth (but these aren't like regular teeth, they are on its tongue).
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Which animal has only one tooth?

Based on the discovery of a single tooth, researchers say they have identified an ancient species of giant platypus.
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Which animal has blue blood?

Can you guess what animals might have blue blood? Lobsters, crabs, pillbugs, shrimp, octopus, crayfish, scallops, barnacles, snails, small worms (except earthworms), clams, squid, slugs, mussels, horseshoe crabs, most spiders. None of these animals have backbones. Some of these animals are Mollusks, like the snails.
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Which animal has teeth on his stomach?

Lobsters and crabs have teeth— in their stomachs. These are used to crush its food, but they also have a strange secondary function in ghost crabs: making a noise that wards off predators.
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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).
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Which animal has teeth in nose?

ABOUT. The babirusa has been called "a wild pig with a dental problem." They have remarkable tusks or canine teeth that can grow right up through the skin in their snout and curve back toward their forehead.
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Do fish have emotions?

The expression of emotions in fish is quantifiable, and they affect the fish's reality. Emotions make up part of the neurological toolbox, promoting sentience in fish.
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What teeth never stop growing?

Rabbit's teeth never stop growing. They keep them worn down by gnawing on bark and other hard foods.
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Do lions have teeth on their tongues?

Their tongues have sharp-pointed rasps, called papillae, which are used to scrape meat off the bones.
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Do Tigers have teeth on their tongues?

Tongue. The tiger's tongue is covered with numerous small, sharp, rear-facing projections called papillae. These papillae gives the tongue is rough, rasping texture and is designed to help strip feathers, fur and meat from prey.
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Do birds have teeth on their tongue?

“Geese eat all kinds of tough food,” continued Amaral-Rogers. “Having tomia on their beak and tongue helps them to rip and pull roots, stems, grasses and aquatic plants from the ground. The 'teeth' on their tongue also help clamp down on small mammals and insects.”
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What animal has no mouth or stomach?

To this day, Trichoplax remains the simplest animal known. It has no mouth, no stomach, no muscles, no blood and no veins. It has no front or back.
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Does shrimp have teeth?

Shrimp are invertebrates, which means they have no bones or teeth. They have an exoskeleton instead, & break up their food with little pinchers at the end of their arms.
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Which animal has no teeth in mouth?

Complete answer: The tortoise has no teeth in its mouth.
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Which animal gives both milk and egg?

The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) has a puzzling array of features. Not only does it have that iconic duck bill, it lays eggs like a bird or reptile but feeds milk to its young like a mammal.
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Which animal has blue milk?

Hippopotamus gives the milk of blue color. Blue milk, also known as Bantha milk, was a rich blue-colored milk produced by female banthas.
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Which animal blood is white?

The icefish of the Channichthyidae family are unusual in several ways — they lack scales and have transparent bones, for example — but what stands out most is their so-called white blood, which is unique among vertebrates.
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Which animal has no blood?

Flatworms, nematodes, and cnidarians (jellyfish, sea anemones, and corals) do not have a circulatory system and thus do not have blood. Their body cavity has no lining or fluid within it.
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Which animal has no tongue?

Taste sensations

Other animals naturally have no tongues, such as sea stars, sea urchins and other echinoderms, as well as crustaceans, says Chris Mah via email.
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Which of the following animals never dies?

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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