Imagine if you could stick out your tongue and lick your belly button. Turns out that would be an easy feat for a frog if they actually had belly buttons. A frog's tongue is one-third of its body ...

Alexis Noel has done something many of us will never do — scrape spit off of frog tongues — of 15 frogs to be exact. "It was pretty disgusting," Noel, a Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech ...

Photos from Aguirre, Apunte and Ron (2025) Cannatella’s tree frogs can reach about 1.3 inches in length, the study said. Their heads have “short” snouts, “heart-shaped” tongues and “large, prominent” ...

The speculum is also used to hold down the tongue so that the food can be easily delivered into the oral cavity. If the frog is large enough, the thumb can be used as a speculum to hold the mouth ...

The frogs then lunge toward the prey and capture it with a sticky tongue. They have also been reported to eat juvenile frogs of other species. THREATS: The destruction and degradation of wetlands ...

Photos from Aguirre, Apunte and Ron (2025) Cannatella’s tree frogs can reach about 1.3 inches in length, the study said. Their heads have “short” snouts, “heart-shaped” tongues and ...