Ranking of animals with the most teeth in the world
No.1 Snail, 25,600 teeth
The snail is a very small and common animal, but it is very, very special because it has 25,600 teeth in its small, pinhole-like mouth! According to experts, no animal has been found to have more teeth than the snail, and it has thus become the most toothed animal in the world.
The snail's small tentacles are easy to spot, and there is a small hole in the middle of the tentacles down to a pinpoint, and this is the snail's mouth. Open the snail's mouth, there is a jagged tongue, scientists call it the "tongue of teeth". On the surface of the snail's tongue, there are more than 20,000 small teeth neatly arranged.
Some people say that although snails have many teeth, they are certainly not hard, which is actually a misconception. It has been known to put a snail into a cardboard box that is harder than its body and the snail can bite through the cardboard and crawl out! Such a small size, with such hard teeth, is fully comparable to the hardest-toothed animals in the world.
No.2 shark, more than 5000 teeth
In the animal kingdom, excluding snails, that has the largest number of teeth is the shark. It is understood that sharks have 5-6 rows of teeth, more than a few dozen rows, the number of about 5,000. And as long as the teeth fall out, new teeth will soon grow out, so in some cases, sharks do have more teeth than snails.
The shark's predatory ability is very strong, in the process often break teeth, and its teeth are amazing, and will not grow up like people can not change teeth, sharks can constantly grow new teeth, according to scientific statistics, a shark in 10 years to replace more than 20,000 teeth. It is this constant replacement that ensures the hardness of the shark's teeth so that it can hunt better, and it is therefore in second place in the ranking of animals with the most teeth.
No.3 Dolphin, 272 teeth
Although animals with more than a few thousand teeth are basically in the snail and shark groups, and then after that it may be the dolphin, which has 272 teeth. Dolphins are a very common aquatic animals, generally living in the ocean or aquariums, if you look closely at dolphins eating, you will find that they will swallow food directly into the mouth, so many people think that dolphins do not have teeth. This is not the case, the dolphin's upper and lower jaws have nearly 100 teeth, the main role of these teeth is to help the dolphin to catch food, while preventing themselves from being in danger. Of course, somewhere on the planet, there must be an animal with a very large number of teeth.
