Post by Darkmark on Mar 11, 2005 10:47:56 GMT -5
(I apologise if someone's already pointed this out, but the Search feature is pretty worthless. You can't search the entire forum with it over longer than 99 days...)
Did you know that Woodpeckers have long, extendible tongues, a bit like a Yoshi's? It's true!
www.harunyahya.com/images_books/images_designinnature/woodpecker_skull.jpg
It curls up inside the Woodpecker's skull normally, like this:
www.talkorigins.org/faqs/woodpecker/flickerhyoid.jpg
The difference between the Woodpecker's tongue and ours is that there is a bone running through it - this allows them to help control it. They use it once they have drilled a hole in a tree to grab insects and grubs inside the wood. It's even got a little ball on the end, if you look closely. It can be 'flicked' out of the mouth like so:
www.talkorigins.org/faqs/woodpecker/flickerfinal4.jpg
Just make it a bit bigger, and it'd look like a Yoshi's tongue. It's not that far off the truth, if you think about it. Especially since it's widely believed that Birds evolved from Dinosaurs...
(If you want to know more, I got those last two pictures and some of the information from here: www.talkorigins.org/faqs/woodpecker/woodpecker.html)
Did you know that Woodpeckers have long, extendible tongues, a bit like a Yoshi's? It's true!
www.harunyahya.com/images_books/images_designinnature/woodpecker_skull.jpg
It curls up inside the Woodpecker's skull normally, like this:
www.talkorigins.org/faqs/woodpecker/flickerhyoid.jpg
The difference between the Woodpecker's tongue and ours is that there is a bone running through it - this allows them to help control it. They use it once they have drilled a hole in a tree to grab insects and grubs inside the wood. It's even got a little ball on the end, if you look closely. It can be 'flicked' out of the mouth like so:
www.talkorigins.org/faqs/woodpecker/flickerfinal4.jpg
Just make it a bit bigger, and it'd look like a Yoshi's tongue. It's not that far off the truth, if you think about it. Especially since it's widely believed that Birds evolved from Dinosaurs...
(If you want to know more, I got those last two pictures and some of the information from here: www.talkorigins.org/faqs/woodpecker/woodpecker.html)
I learned most from that one post than I did in school today...