A South African shared a viral video of a "flirty" copperhead snake at Plettenberg Bay sanctuary that kept flicking its tongue out like giving kisses.

Although snakes have nostrils, they also use their tongues to pick up the scent of nearby prey or predators. When a snake flicks its tongue, it collects odors that are present in miniscule ...

The young boy, from Makassar, Indonesia, sticks his tongue out at the snake held by an older boy. The snake lurches forward and painfully bites the child's tongue.

To see what else snakes might be up to with all that lingual action, these biologists recorded snake tongues with four high-speed video cameras and reconstructed a 3D model of the tongue in motion.

Snakes have that forked tongue that they're sticking out all the time and waving about. They aren't well equipped with sense organs, you see. Snakes can't hear because they don't have ears.

Africa's puff adder is the only known snake to attract its victims with both tongue and tail, a new study says. 1:16. Deadly Trick: See How a Puff Adder Uses Its Tongue to Lure Prey.

In 1994, Schwenk published a study on why snakes have forked tongues. According to Schwenk, snakes’ tongues do not have taste receptors, and instead are used for a type of three-dimensional ...