Apr 27, 2024, 12:28 PM IST

8 animals that don't have teeth

Mahipal Chouhan

Birds: Many bird species lack teeth. Instead, they have beaks or bills adapted for different feeding strategies such as pecking, tearing, or filtering food.

Whales and Dolphins: These marine mammals have lost their teeth during evolution. Instead, they have baleen plates (in baleen whales) or specialized structures in their mouths (in toothed whales) for capturing and filtering food.

Anteaters: Anteaters have no teeth. They use their long, sticky tongues to capture ants and termites, which they then swallow whole.

Pangolins: Pangolins lack teeth. They primarily feed on ants and termites, using their long, sticky tongues to gather prey.

Sea Turtles: Sea turtles have beaks instead of teeth. They use their beaks to grasp and tear food such as seaweed, jellyfish, and small fish.

Giant Squid: Giant squids do not have teeth. Instead, they have a sharp beak, similar to that of birds, which they use to tear prey apart.

Sea Stars (Starfish): Sea stars do not have teeth. They feed by extruding their stomachs onto their prey and digesting them externally.

This information is not DNA's opinion but obtained from media reports