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’ remarkable power to tongue-grab prey — some as big as mice or as oddly shaped as tarantulas — stems from a combo of peculiar saliva and a supersquishy tongue. The first detailed analysis of the ...

Frog tongues are sticky like glue and that's all there is to it, right? Actually no, it turns out that things aren't quite that simple. Led by mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Alexis Noel, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The secret behind a frog's sticky tongue has been revealed – a combination of special saliva and flesh as soft as brains. Researchers have shown that together, these two features are able to create a ...