Smelling in stereo – the real reason snakes have flicking, forked tongues
- Written by Kurt Schwenk, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
Long misunderstood, snake tongues have fascinated naturalists for centuries.reptiles4all/iStock via Getty Images PlusAs dinosaurs lumbered through the humid cycad forests of ancient South America 180 million years ago, primeval lizards scurried, unnoticed, beneath their feet. Perhaps to avoid being trampled by their giant kin, some of these early...
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