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Schwarz and his team found that before newts transform into full-fledged adults, they develop a tonguelike appendage that presses food against sharp, needlelike “teeth” on the roof of their mouth.

From Science Magazine • May 24, 2023

The finding, which he and his colleagues reported in 2020, suggests a tonguelike structure may have helped early tetrapods feed, even before they climbed onto solid ground.

From Science Magazine • May 24, 2023

Suddenly it stops and stares, and a little, tonguelike organ in the center of the dish vibrates with fierce excitement.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each narrow tonguelike mesa of the Mesa Verde has its ruins of either isolated pueblo structures, or adjacent groups, denoting the widespread distribution of the mesa pueblo builders.

From Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by United States. Dept. of the Interior

Very soon after their formation is complete, tonguelike encroachments of the penumbra appear to force their way across the umbra, and this splitting up of the central spot usually goes on quite rapidly.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck