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 ...

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.

Frogs and amphibians can nab a fly with remarkable speed — but the real secret of their bug-catching prowess is in the saliva. Sticky frog saliva is a non-Newtonian fluid. That means it can behave as ...

The frog shoots its tongue out in the blink of an eye to trap its prey - thwack (ph) - how does that tongue actually work? Alexis C. Noel, who's a biomechanics Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech, has ...

Yet how, exactly, frogs could maintain their grip on insects during such speedy attacks was not fully understood. Scientists knew the tongues were super-adhesive; one 2014 study revealed that a frog ...

More than 7,000 species of frogs hop, climb and perch around our world—which means more than 7,000 unique frog calls permeate ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. — At Twin Creeks in the Great Smoky Mountains, try not to jump if you're suddenly surrounded by the sound of hundreds of turkeys. It is likely the call of frogs gone wild on a warm ...

One of the seven new species of frog named after Star Trek captains found in Madagascar - Mark D. Scherz/SWNS Frogs that whistle “like sound effects from Star Trek” have been discovered by scientists.

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 ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. — At Twin Creeks in the Great Smoky Mountains, try not to jump if you're suddenly surrounded by the sound of hundreds of turkeys. It is likely the call of frogs gone wild on a warm ...