Uploaded July 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Chameleons are fancy lizards. They can move and focus each eye independently, they catch food with super long tongues, and they change colors! And if all that wasn't enough, new research has added something bizarre to their already impressive arsenal of color-changing abilities.

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Sources:
caltechletters.org/science/color-in-nature
nature.com/articles/ncomms7368
nature.com/articles/s41598-017-19070-7
animaldiversity.org/accounts/Chamaeleonidae
academic.oup.com/cz/article/64/3/319/4979555
nature.com/articles/s41598-019-41959-8
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1556-4029.12978

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nature.com/articles/ncomms7368#Sec17
youtu.be/S9ye2evdaWI
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brookesia_micra_on_a_match_head.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parson%27s_Chameleon.jpg
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Lance-nosed_chameleon_(15904910651).jpg
nature.com/articles/s41598-017-19070-7#Abs1
nature.com/articles/s41598-019-41959-8#Sec16
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