But it would not be until Alexis C. Noel, a biomechanics PhD student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, watched a video of an African bullfrog crushing digital bugs with its tongue (the pet frog ...

Chameleons can rocket their tongues at prey in a blur, frogs can slam sticky tongues onto insects with forces several times their own body weight, and hummingbirds seem to sip nectar with impossible ...