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.

A tree frog became a viral social media star on Oct. 5. What did it do to achieve such fame? It looked really, really big in a video and devoured a banana. The video has been viewed at least 8 ...

They found in 2014 that frog adhesion forces can reach up to 1.4 times the body weight. That means the sticky frog tongue is strong enough to lift nearly twice its own weight.

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.

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. To dislodge its prize, the frog sucks its ...

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 ...

No one has. And yet frogs perform this feat every single time they eat. People have been studying frog tongues since the 19th century, but they’ve never understood exactly what makes them so sticky.

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists found an elusive amphibian with a “heart-shaped” tongue in Yunnan and discovered new species: Dulongjiang tree frog, study said.

The tongue has been literally ripped out of one of Midland's downtown frogs. "It had its tongue broken off," said Capt. C.J. Prinzo of the Midland Police Department. "It's A Living" depicts a ...