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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...