Of all the strange and marvelous appendages to arise in animal anatomy, the frog tongue is one of the few to meet the requirements of a Marvel Comics superpower: the “X-Men” villain nam… ...

Frogs are tailless, slimy-looking amphibians belonging to the order Anura. They mostly have bulgy eyes jutted out from the surrounding surface. Frogs make croaking sounds and have webbed solid hind ...

But the frog’s tongue is “one of the softest bio tissues known,” she says, similar to the squishiness of brain tissue and a whole 10 times softer than the human tongue.

Some people spear frogs using sticks with nails or spikes, an approach sometimes used - and protested - in frog-catching competitions. Other frog hunters bury buckets in the ground as traps.

The trick turned out to be frog spit, a Georgia Tech researcher discovered. ... German researchers observed horned frogs catching bugs with strikes that clocked in at 40 milliseconds.