All that's left to do is reel it in. The frog's retractor muscle yanks on the tongue, which zooms backwards like a bungee cord. Within 15/100s of a second, it disappears back into the mouth.

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So sophisticated is the frog tongue that it’s capable of grabbing prey up to 1.4 times the predator’s body weight — a feat unmatched by any man-made device. Inspired by a viral video of a ...

Instead, the tongue itself secretes the saliva. To see how sticky frog saliva might be, Noel spent several hours per sample scraping some 15 frog tongues to put together enough spit for a single test.

Further YouTube research yielded amazing videos of frogs eating mice, tarantulas and even other frogs. The versatile frog tongue can grab wet, hairy and slippery surfaces with equal ease. It does ...

Frog tongues are also incredibly soft and sticky, which makes them ideal for this type of hunting. After the insect is captured in the tongue, it’s almost impossible for the insect to escape. Only ...

The tissue of a frog’s tongue is about the same softness of brain tissue, or 10 times softer than a human tongue. This softness makes it more effective at sticking to things in combination with the ...

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 ...

Scientists found an elusive creature with a “heart-shaped” tongue hiding in bamboo in China and discovered a new species, a study said. Photos from Ying-Chun Li via Lee, Liu, Ouyang, Ai, Liu ...

Frog tongues seem pretty esoteric, but remember that antibiotics came from bread mold.” Noel, meanwhile, is turning her attention to cat tongues.

Morning Mix Scientist cracks mystery of the frog’s powerful tongue. It’s called spit. February 1, 2017 (Candler Hobbs/Georgia Tech) By Ben Guarino ...