Sunday, March 11, 2007

FYI: don't ever try to French kiss a palm salamander


The giant palm salamander of Central America shoots out its tongue with more instantaneous power than any known muscle in the animal kingdom, a new study finds.
The salamander, Bolitoglossa dofleini, can shoot out its tongue with 18,000 watts of power per kilogram of muscle. This is nearly double the power output of the previous champ, the Colorado River toad Bufo alvarius.
Bolitoglossa can
extend its tongue more than half its body length in about 7 milliseconds, or about 50 times faster than an average eye blink.

I stand corrected. I always thought that Ann Coulter had the most explosive tongue in the world.

1 comment:

RobertDWood said...

Lol...
I would hate to be a fly on the recieving end of one of those.