Minor evolutionary changes helped transform the salamander tongue into a fast elastic recoil mechanism
Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - 08:20
in Biology & Nature
A team of researchers from the University of South Florida and California State University Stanislaus has found that just a few minor evolutionary changes led to the development of the superfast salamander tongue. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes their study of a variety of salamander species and what they learned about their strong elastic recoil mechanism.