Toad Tongues Slay With Seriously Sticky Spit | KQED
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In their lab, researchers at Georgia Tech gathered and stretched frog saliva.Good times.They found the saliva morphs from the consistency of honey to water, and back again ... in under a second.So...honey!Water!Honey again!Once inside the mouth, the toad has a new problem: ungluing its lunch.To figure out how they do it, scientists at the University of Florida put tiny metal markers on cane toads' tongues and filmed X-ray footage of them eating.
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