Frogs are well known to capture fast-moving prey by flicking their sticky tongues out of the mouth. This tongue projection behaviour happens extremely fast which makes frog tongues a biological high-speed adhesive system. The processes at the interface between tongue and prey, and thus the mechanism of adhesion, however, are completely unknown."
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New research (2015) has attempted to experimentally clarify the mechanisms , which appear to be a combination of viscous stickiness and microstructure adhesion.
See: Frog tongue acts as muscle-powered adhesive tape Royal Society Open Science.
Note: A similar puzzle exists for the feet-pads of many insects - which can somehow adhere to almost any surface. Some aspects of the attraction can be explained by Van der Waals forces, but others cannot.