Here, the 'ballistic tongues' paper by Yu Zeng and team
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plus dispatch by Sam Van Wassenbergh
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Biomechanics: Squeezing power drives ballistic tongues
Chameleons and lungless salamanders independently evolved very fast projectile tongues.
In both cases, ballistic performance involves a long, blunt-ended skeletal rod that
slides freely within a power...