New! Sign up for our free email newsletter.
Reference Terms
from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tongue

The tongue is the large bundle of muscles on the floor of the mouth that manipulates food for chewing and swallowing.

Note:   The above text is excerpted from the Wikipedia article "Tongue", which has been released under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Related Stories
 


Science News

December 3, 2024

Researchers have linked a specific type of body fat to the abnormal proteins in the brain that are hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease up to 20 years before the earliest symptoms of dementia appear, according to a new study. The researchers emphasized ...
A theoretical study suggests that small black holes born in the early universe may have left behind hollow planetoids and microscopic tunnels, and that we should start looking within rocks and old ...
More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake Turkana in Kenya, two completely different species of hominins may have passed ...
Researchers have been able to identify undigested food remains, plants and prey in the fossilized feces of dinosaurs. These analyses of hundreds of samples provide clues about the role dinosaurs played in the ecosystem around 200 million years ...

Latest Headlines

updated 12:56 pm ET