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Top 10 Weird Tongues Tongue is an organ specific to the vertebrates. And they can do a lot of things with their tongues...1. A blue whale weighing 60-70 tons (and the largest blue whales can double this weight) has a 3 tons tongue. It is by far the largest tongue in the animal world. And the whale tongue is not large because of the overa... 12 April 2008 07:04 GMT Some Weird Giraffe Issues Despite the extreme long neck of the giraffe, the animal has the same number of neck (cervical) vertebrae like humans and most mammals: 7. In fact, as paradoxically as it sounds, the giraffe has the shortest neck relative to the foot length amongst all hoofed mammals! That's why they have to execute that clumsy ... 10 March 2008 10:30 GMT Not One, but Six Giraffe Species! There's nothing taller on Earth: large giraffe bulls can be 6 m (20 ft) tall, and weigh up to 1.5 tonnes! If you look at giraffes across the African savannas, you'll see that they all look the same. With one exception: the shape and color of their spots. A new DNA research published in "BMC Biology" shows t... 28 December 2007 05:10 GMT