tongue in Podcasts
conceptA large, long, and flexible muscular organ in the mouth of many animals, used for tasting, licking, and manipulating food.
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What's the deal with tongues?
It has to be lifted and physically pulled into the mouth. And so my feeling is that the tongue became elaborated from musculature that was already present in the fish to take the place of water. So tongues developed from muscles that were already present in fish, gradually taking over the job that water used to do.