AN ANCIENT depiction of a demon with a forked tongue scrawled 2,700 years ago has been uncovered. The drawing was made on an Assyrian clay tablet, and shows a demon blamed for causing people to suf… ...

Perhaps, Schulp and co-authors argue, they had tongues like the earless monitor or even the infamous Gila monster in which the front of the tongue was a bifurcated chemosensor and the back of the ...