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 ...

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 can lift 1.4 times their body weight with just their tongues. That's like a human lifting a refrigerator with their tongue. Researchers found that frogs can snatch their prey in under .07 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Want stickier bandages? Take a look at a frog’s tongue. New research from the Oregon State University College of Engineering found a frog’s tongue is covered with a sticky ...

Horned frogs are capable of consuming prey that are very large relative to the amphibians' own bodies, and they may be able to pull off this impressive feat thanks to the strength of their tongues, ...

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 ...