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 ...

When a panther chameleon meets a rival, its rapid color change isn't a simple pigment trick. A complex biological process sits behind this transformation. A male panther chameleon that meets a rival ...

Is there really anything cooler than watching a chameleon change colors as it moves along? Nope, there really isn't! Which is why I could watch this @National Geographic TV video on repeat...I just ...

Chameleons are perhaps the most well-known animals that have the ability to change color, but scientists didn't know exactly how it was done until now. Unlike other creatures that disperse pigments in ...

Despite their image as masters of camouflage, it has long been assumed in science that chameleons change color to communicate with one another or in response to predators. But now new research has ...

The chameleon, a lizard known for its color-changing skin, is the inspiration behind a new electromagnetic material that could someday make vehicles and aircraft "invisible" to radar. As reported ...

Why and how do chameleons change color? asks Frank Yenna, a student in Hewlett, NY. In their just-hanging-out colors of brown to green, scientists say, chameleons are already well camouflaged in their ...

Around half of all chameleons (there are over 200 species) are found on the island of Madagascar, which is where I do my research and is quite close to the coast of Tanzania in East Africa. The other ...