October 2007 Could you pick up a 10-kilo piece of steak with your tongue? A chameleon can do just that (or the equivalent thereof). Their tongue appears to create a suction cup just as it blobs onto the hapless victim. Video of chameleon eating, from Madagscar, filmed by Jo Stonehouse (once of Manchester, now in Sheffield). Article about the [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘biomechanics’
14/04/2009
ARMOURED FISH WITH A BIG BITE
Reconstruction of a 400 MYR old armoured fish shows quite what a massive bite it had. BBC news summary here; open access original article from Biology Letters here.
