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Talking tongues, detecting beer, and shifting perspectives on females

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The Evolution of the Tongue

Once animals hit the land and it became very tiresome to keep having to go back to a pool of water to eat food, they started to get these elaborations in their mouth that became tongues. One of the things that happened in amphibians and some reptiles is they basically evolved a tongue that could get out of the mouth and catch the prey. The muscles that control the tongue got changed around so that when the tongue is rolled up in the mouth or in the mouth,. They store a lot of elastic energy. Even right about one that has protective mucus on the tongue.

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