Chameleons are celebrated for their incredible ability to change color at will. Due to specialized cells in their skin, they can adapt their coloring to absorb heat, reflect sunlight, and communicate ...

Animals of all kinds display unique characteristics and magnificent abilities. Hummingbirds can flap their wings 80 times per second; ants can carry up to 50 times their own weight; bats can quickly ...

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 ...

We’ve always been told that if you watch a chameleon closely behind any background, it flickers its colors and slips into ...

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 ...

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 ...

In mid-November 2020, a video supposedly showing a chameleon rapidly changing colors as it climbed a series of connected colored pencils went viral on social media. One posting of this video on TikTok ...

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 ...