Frogs use a unique kind of reversible saliva combined with a super-soft tongue to hold onto prey, new research has found. FROGS ARE RENOWNED for catching prey at high speeds – faster than a human can ...

The secret behind a frog's sticky tongue has been revealed – a combination of special saliva and flesh as soft as brains. Researchers have shown that together, these two features are able to create a ...

Frogs use a unique kind of reversible saliva combined with a super-soft tongue to hold onto prey, new research has found. FROGS ARE RENOWNED for catching prey at high speeds – faster than a human can ...

Paper Epiphanies in the Portland airport's new terminal has sold out of stuffed frogs, with customers seeing them as a symbol ...

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 ...

A frog tongue's stickiness is caused by a reversible saliva in combination with a super soft tongue, new research shows. A frog's saliva is thick and sticky during prey capture, then turns thin and ...

Frog tongues are sticky like glue and that's all there is to it, right? Actually no, it turns out that things aren't quite that simple. Led by mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Alexis Noel, ...

Each frog was separated from a tempting morsel by a glass slide, which was used to measure the forces exerted by its tongue. New research shows that the pulling force of a frog's tongue can be up to ...

Scientists measuring the force exerted by the tongue of a horned frog have found that it can can be up to three times the animal's own weight. Researchers in Kiel, Germany, put a tasty cricket on the ...

Each frog was separated from a tempting morsel by a glass slide, which was used to measure the forces exerted by its tongue. New research shows that the pulling force of a frog's tongue can be up to ...