The authors of the study, published today (May 6) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, claim that the physiological mechanism driving this rapid transformation of the tongue tip could ...

Eat your heart out, Gene Simmons. The tongue of the Ecuadorian nectar bat Anoura fistulata unfurls to 8.5 centimeters--twice as long as related bats' tongues and half again as long as the animal ...