Gotcha! A frog's tongue can be five times faster than the blink of a human eye. F1online digitale Bildagentur GmbH / Alamy How does one get stuck studying frog tongues? Our study into the sticky, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Frog spit might be some of the catchiest spit on the planet. That's according to new research on frog saliva, which shows that the sticky stuff is tailor-made to grab bugs. It helps to explain how ...

Chameleons have a sticky problem. To catch their insect dinner, their tongues unfurl forward faster than a jet plane. It’s a precise attack, and it’s remarkably successful. But snagging prey with ...