Teeth

Animal Teeth

Snails have the most teeth

of any animal. A snail's

teeth are arranged in

rows on it's tongue.

Giraffes have no upper front

teeth. Just like humans,

giraffes have 32 teeth, but

most are positioned in the

back of their mouths. They

don't need upper front teeth

because they use their long

tongues to grab leaves and

twigs. Then they regurgitate

them up before using the back

teeth to grind them.

Blue Wales have no teeth!

Even though they're the largest

mammals in the world, blue wales

only eat tiny shrimp krill, so they

don't need teeth. Instead, they have

bristle like features called baleen

that comb's through the water for food.

This is a blue whale

Sharks teeth

Sharks have the most powerful jaws on the planet. unlike most animals jaws, both the sharks upper and lower jaws move. A shark bites with it's lower jaw first then it's upper. It tosses it's head back and forth to tear a loose piece of meat which it swallows whole. Each type of shark has a different shaped tooth

depending on their diet. ( The shark in this photo is a great white ... you can tell he's a carnivore just by looking at those sharp, pointy teeth!).

A shark may grow and use over 20,000 teeth in it's lifetime. Sharks never run out of teeth.

If one is lost another spins forward from the rows and rows of backup teeth.