In traditional Chinese medicine, for example, different sections of the tongue are associated with different organs. The shape, color and texture of a person’s tongue can offer valuable insight ...

This small town is in southern China’s Yunnan province and near the border with Myanmar. The new species was identified by its body size, head shape, tongue shape, coloring and other physical features ...

A growing body of evidence suggests that a person’s mother tongue shapes the way they think about many aspects of the world, including space and time. The results, Boroditsky says, have broad ...

Back then, the protruding tongue was featured on more basketball-style trainers. Now, the shapes are increasingly similar to football boots, where the folded tongue originates from. This may be an ...