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HackerNews Summary (2023-05-24 06PM)

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Source: A Microscopic Look at Snail Jaws

Summary
Land snails and slugs are fascinating eaters, with specialist and generalist species consuming a wide range of foods. They have a jaw and a flexible band of microscopic teeth called a radula, which scrapes up and rasps food particles.

Fact

  • 🦷 Snails and slugs have a radula, a flexible band of thousands of microscopic teeth that scrapes up food particles.
  • 🍴 They also have a jaw that cuts off larger pieces of food to be rasped by the radula.
  • 🍽️ Snails and slugs are herbivorous, carnivorous, omnivorous, and detritivorous, eating a wide range of vegetation, rotting vegetation, animal waste, fungus, and other snails.

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