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Nature Notebook

Consider this the next time you look at a salamander’s “smiling” face: amphibians have teeth. Frogs and salamanders eat live prey. Because this prey would prefer to be on the outside of the mouth, the amphibian needs a way to hold its food inside the mouth until it is swallowed.

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