The chameleon's uncanny ability to change color has long mystified people, but now the lizard's secret is out: Chameleons can rapidly change color by adjusting a layer of special cells nestled within ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the chameleon gets aroused in some way, be the excitement be the result of a threat or of a Ryan Gosling-esque male, the ...

Today's blog post is for all you who are fascinated by science, how things work in the animal world and especially for the reptile lovers out there. We all know that chameleons change colors. They do ...

What a great question, Ikechukwu! It doesn’t have a simple answer, though: yes, chameleons do change color when they sleep, but we think it happens in a different way to when they’re awake. People ...

Why it's awesome: Labord's chameleons live fast and die young. They hold the record for the shortest lifespan of all tetrapods — they hatch, grow, mate and die in just four to five months. Labord's ...

Among Madagascar’s incredible wildlife, none is more unusual than Labord’s chameleon (Furcifer labordi). This remarkable reptile holds the record for the shortest lifespan of any known vertebrate, ...

Humans have some cool traits, but some animal traits are more complex than ours. One example is our appearance. Unless we dye our hair, give ourselves fake tans or tattoo our bodies, we are pretty ...

Creatures like chameleons and cuttlefish can effortlessly change the colors and patterns of their skin to match their surroundings, but recreating that clever camouflaging trick on a robot required ...

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