You might think frogs catch insects ‘cause their tongues are sticky. "But why is the tongue sticky, and how does it actually adhere to these insects at these very high accelerations?" Those are the ...

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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 ...

We all know that frogs have one of nature’s coolest methods of catching their prey—blasting their tongue out and latching onto the victim. But we haven’t fully understood how the process works. New ...

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, ...

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 ...