Having determined the biomechanical properties of the frog tongues, Noel and her colleagues then watched frogs catch food with high speed cameras. Noel broke down the attack into three steps. First, ...

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 ...

The frog shoots its tongue out in the blink of an eye to trap its prey - thwack (ph) - how does that tongue actually work? Alexis C. Noel, who's a biomechanics Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech, has ...

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 ...