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 ...

Scientists knew the tongues were super-adhesive; one 2014 study revealed that a frog tongue could heft objects 1.4 times the animal's own body weight, relying on a mechanism that the Los Angeles Times ...

How are frogs so amazing at catching bugs? It’s their supersoft tongue and special spit. How are frogs and toads so amazing at catching bugs? They smack ’em with a supersoft tongue covered in special ...

Frog tongues are super soft and wrap around their prey while secreting a sticky spit that changes consistency. Alexis Noel of Georgia Tech tells NPR's Scott Simon how she studied the amphibians. The ...

Pulling power A South American frog has a tongue so sticky it can generate pulling forces three times the animal's own bodyweight, report scientists. The amphibian with the super-lingual power is the ...

Cane toads swallow prey using a complex pulley system of cartilage and muscle that travels so far down their throat, it butts up against their heart. The authors used X-ray videography to study the ...

A frog’s tongue can catch flies faster than you can blink. It shoots out of its mouth six times faster than a jet fighter. Then it collides with the fly, covering it in some of the stickest spit on ...