Their special mouthparts help snails adapt to a wide variety of food and habitats. A research team from the Zoological Institute of Kiel University (CAU) and the Center of Natural History (CeNak) of the University of Hamburg has now been able to biomechanically measure the mechanical performance of the teeth for the first time and derive different functional relations from this. The results have been published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
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Source: Phys.org