Scientist cracks mystery of the frog’s powerful tongue. It’s called spit.

Of all the strange and marvelous appendages to arise in animal anatomy, the frog tongue is one of the few to meet the requirements of a Marvel Comics superpower: the “X-Men” villain named Toad boasted a 30-foot prehensile tongue with which he would do battle. Real amphibian organs are no less deadly — if you are a cricket, anyway — and have long been objects of fascination.