Tiny frogs that have no middle ear use their mouths to hear, French scientists say. A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that the almighty eardrum may not be ...

Fast-flicking frog tongues are a biological high-speed adhesive system. They stick immediately to different sorts of surfaces and capture quick, distant, and often tiny prey at rapid velocities. Now, ...

Frogs’ remarkable power to tongue-grab prey — some as big as mice or as oddly shaped as tarantulas — stems from a combo of peculiar saliva and a supersquishy tongue. The first detailed analysis of the ...

If your tongue was as sticky as one South American frog's tongue, you could grab a 400-pound object and pull it inside your mouth, say German researchers who've researched the amphibians' mouths.

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 ...

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 ...