Quick, imagine an animal tongue. What came into your mind? The flicking forked tongue of a snake? A cow licking a block of ...
For humans, tongues help us talk, and taste, chew and swallow our food. Other animals have tongues that have evolved to do other work, like dig through deep tunnels, navigate through dangerous ...
You'll have to see it to believe it—they’re sticky, they’re stretchy, and they’re just plain long! Join Hank Green and check out seven of the strangest tongues in the animal kingdom, here on SciShow!
You’ve all probably seen it: a frog snatching a fly in mid-air with its tongue. Whether you’ve seen it in a slow-motion science video or even a cartoon, almost everyone everywhere knows about their ...
Get to know this remarkable member of the anteater family Ashley Goetz Tamanduas, also called lesser anteaters, are smaller than their giant anteater relatives. They live in a variety of habitats – ...
Scientists have long been captivated by frog tongues. Frogs have perhaps one of the most interesting tongues in the entire animal kingdom, and given what we know about them, it’s easy to see why.
Of all the strange and marvelous appendages to arise in animal anatomy, the frog tongue is one of the few to meet the requirements of a Marvel Comics superpower: the "X-Men" villain named Toad boasted ...
Horned frogs are capable of consuming prey that are very large relative to the amphibians' own bodies, and they may be able to pull off this impressive feat thanks to the strength of their tongues, ...
Scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of extinct amphibian that used its powerful sticky tongue to catch bugs. The species, Chemnitzion richteri, used an ambush strategy to feed, ...