{"667931":{"#nid":"667931","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Tales Of The Tongue ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA small but growing group of researchers is fascinated by an organ we often take for granted. We rarely think about how agile our own tongue needs to be to form words or avoid being bitten while helping us taste and swallow food. But that\u2019s just the start of the tongue\u2019s versatility across the animal kingdom. Without tongues, few if any terrestrial vertebrates could exist. The first of their ancestors to slither out of the water some 400 million years ago found a buffet stocked with new types of foods, but it took a tongue to sample them. The range of foods available to these pioneers broadened as tongues diversified into new, specialized forms \u2014 and ultimately took on functions beyond eating. This examination of how animal tongues shaped biological diversity includes research from\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hu.gatech.edu\/about\/\u0022\u003EDavid Hu\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA small but growing group of researchers is fascinated by an organ we often take for granted. We rarely think about how agile our own tongue needs to be to form words or avoid being bitten while helping us taste and swallow food. But that\u2019s just the start of the tongue\u2019s versatility across the animal kingdom. Without tongues, few if any terrestrial vertebrates could exist. The first of their ancestors to slither out of the water some 400 million years ago found a buffet stocked with new types of foods, but it took a tongue to sample them. The range of foods available to these pioneers broadened as tongues diversified into new, specialized forms \u2014 and ultimately took on functions beyond eating. This examination of how animal tongues shaped biological diversity includes \u0026nbsp;research from\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hu.gatech.edu\/about\/\u0022\u003EDavid Hu\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/biosciences.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Biological Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/physics.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Physics\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-05-30 15:57:26","changed_gmt":"2023-05-30 15:57:26","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Science ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/how-tongue-shaped-life-on-earth","dateline":{"date":"2023-05-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2023-05-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"}],"categories":[{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166882","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"297","name":"David Hu"},{"id":"192695","name":"tongues"},{"id":"192696","name":"animal tongues"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}