A slight majority, 53%, think teens should be at least 18 to get a license. The poll of 1,002 adults, conducted Dec. 17-19, 2004, has an error margin of +/-3 percentage points. Many states have begun to raise the age by imposing restrictions on 16-year-old drivers.
Do snakes really smell with their tongues? Snakes do use their tongues to smell! Snakes have nostrils, just like humans. But a snakeâs tongue is also very important. When a snake flicks its tongue in the air, it picks up tiny chemical particles. When the snake brings its tongue back into its mouth, the tongue fits into a special organ on the roof of the mouth. This special organ is called the vomeronasal system. The vomeronasal system takes those tiny chemical particles and tells the snake what they are.
Snakes do not use their tongues for any of these things. Over the past 20 years, Kurt Schwenk, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Connecticut, has been working on understanding the function of snake tongues, and smelling is the closest description of what snakes do with their tongues. Tongues that smell. Snakes use their tongues for collecting chemicals from the air or ground. The tongue does not have receptors to taste or smell. Instead, these receptors are in the vomeronasal, or Jacobson's Organ, which is in the roof of the mouth.