Press Coverage of Research from the Deban Lab

High-power tongue projection

"Salamander tongue strikes like a crossbow" 100 Top Science Stories of 2007, Discover Magazine, January 2008.

"Salamander's tongue packs a powerful punch" Interview for "Science Out of the Box" on NPR's All Things Considered, 17 March 2007.

"The world's most explosive tongue" LiveScience.com, 7 March 2007.

"Salamander trumps toad as Mr. Universe" New Scientist.com, 11 February 2007.

"Wedstrijdje tongen" Noorderlicht Noorderlog, 9 February 2007

Salamander Feeding Movies

"Tongue tricks" by Mitch Leslie. Science, 13 September 2002, vol. 297, Page 1775.

Ballistic-tongued salamander

"Tongue attack" by Tabitha Flack. BBC Wildlife, November 1997. Page 61.

"La salamandre sort sa langue" Sciences et avenir, November 1997. Page 31.

"Ballistic tongue" by Arthur Fisher. Popular Science, January 1998. Page 26.

"Salamander's lethal missile" by John L. Eliot. National Geographic, September, 1998, vol. 194, no. 3.

"Multilingual" by Carl Zimmer. Natural History, Oct, 1999.

Salamanders rolling downhill

"Downhill racers" by Richard Griffiths. BBC Wildlife, July 1995. Page 24.

"Salamanders that roll" Discover Magazine, August 1995.

"Die Rolling Stones der Sierra Nevada" Geo, September, 1995. Page 177.

Geo Korea, November, 1995. Page 171.

"Roly-Poly salamander" Australia Nature, Spring 1996. Page 20.

Tiny predatory tadpole

"Tiny African tadpole a big sucker to its prey" by John Roach, National Geographic News, 7 November 2002.

"Attack of the prey-sucking tadpoles" by Lee Siegel. University of Utah News Release, November 2002.

"Tadpoles kill by supersuction" Science News, 16 November 2002.  

Sperm whale battering ram

"Fat heads sink ships" by Adam Summers. Natural History, September 2002.

"Sperm whales' heads perfect for smashing ships" by James Randerson. New Scientist, June 2002.