Queen bumblebees have a newfound excuse for slacking on foraging nectar: Their tongues are holding them back. Bumblebees have long, hairy tongues that help them lap up nectar from flowers. But queen ...

Nature never stops surprising us. Animals have acquired the most unbelievable tongues on land, in the sea, and in the air, to be able to live under the most specific conditions. Even insects, which ...

As winter temperatures drop, a familiar childhood warning resurfaces: Don’t stick your tongue on a frozen metal pole. The moment was made famous in the holiday classic “A Christmas Story” when a ...

A four-year-old French mastiff and Bullmastiff mix from Oklahoma has set a new Guinness World Record for having a super long tongue. Ozzy claimed the title for the longest tongue on a living dog with ...

On the heels of comedian Dave Coulier’s announcement of his tongue cancer diagnosis, experts are sharing what to know about the disease. Coulier, 66, announced in a Tuesday interview that he has been ...

Dec. 3 (UPI) --An Oklahoma family's dog earned a Guinness World Record when his tongue, which usually hangs out the side of his mouth, was measured at 7.83 inches long. Ozzy, a French mastiff and bull ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Dave Coulier has been diagnosed with HPV-related ...

Less than a year after the Full House star beat his diagnosis of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, he shared he was diagnosed with HPV-related oropharyngeal tongue cancer in October. “It is a shock to the system, ...

It's a well-known fact that if you're trying to cool your mouth after eating spicy food, you should drink milk, not water. Bearing that fact in mind, scientists have developed an "artificial tongue" ...

The appearance of a hot sauce or pepper doesn’t reveal whether it’s mild or likely to scorch someone’s taste buds. So, researchers made an artificial tongue to quickly detect spiciness. Inspired by ...

For thousands of years traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners have checked patients’ tongues as part of a full examination, carefully scrutinizing their color, shape and coating in an ...

(NEXSTAR) – Do you have a “geographic tongue”? No, it’s not a nickname for a person who speaks multiple languages, or even a glutton who enjoys a diverse range of worldly cuisines. It’s actually a ...