The clip, which now has over 4.1 million views on X, formerly known as Twitter, showed how a cat's tongue is covered in backwards facing spines, also called papillae.

First, CT scans of cats’ tongues showed they’re not covered in solid cones but in claw-shaped hooks. They lie flat and rear-facing, out of the way until, with a twitch of the tongue muscle ...

Peter Carlos, a Florida veterinary technician revealed an up-close look at a cat's tongue, that has many people terrified. In the 12-second clip, posted on Carlos' Instagram account, he films a ...

Georgia Institute of Technology. One day, research engineer Alexis Noel’s cat, Murphy, was blithely licking away—as cats do—when he got his tongue stuck on a microfiber blanket.

Cats tend to do strange things and one of them is sticking out their tongues. As a cat owner, you may have witnessed this ...

Well, one precious Tuxedo cat has permanent tongue-out derp face, and it's just as cute as you'd expect it to be. Get ready to awwwwww. This amazing feline belongs to the TikTok account for @ ...

Despite common wisdom, the tongue that carries this out is not like sandpaper at all, according to the researchers, who created a 3D-printed cat tongue model to prove their point.

Domestic cats sleep up to 14 hours a day; they spend a big chunk of their waking hours on grooming. A cat's tongue is ideally suited for this purpose because it's carpeted with lots of sharp, ...

Cats also stick their tongue out because they’re curious — it allows them to “taste” their environment. "Cats use all senses to explore the world, including taste," Amy Shojai, ...

The Ph.D student of mechanical engineering was at home with her cat Murphy one day when Murphy, most likely intrigued by a smell, started licking a blanket. Interestingly, the cat’s tongue got stuck.