It’s crayfish season in Louisiana, but the Pacific Northwest is receiving all the crayfish spotlight. Researchers recently ...

Crabs, as with other species like lobsters and crayfish, are known to have teeth ... surprised to find ghost crabs had co-opted their stomach teeth for the purpose of communication, and they ...

Human bones and teeth gain their incredible strength and hardness from the use of calcium phosphate minerals. In contrast, like most invertebrates, freshwater crayfish reinforce their exoskeletons ...

Ghost crabs “growl” when threatened by grinding the teeth inside their stomach against each other. While many crustaceans have teeth in their stomachs for grinding up food, the ghost crab is ...

However, there is one aspect in which the teeth of freshwater crayfish differ from those of vertebrates: Their enamel contains a high level of fluoride that makes it much less water-soluble - all ...

The similarities in their properties and underlying structural principles make the crayfish molar and mammalian teeth an interesting example of convergent evolution of a functional tooth structure ...