Trioceros hoehnelii, one of the 20 chameleons whose tongues a researcher tested for speed Christopher Anderson via Brown University/Youtube.com Chameleon tongues are fast—they must be to snatch ...

Rhampholeon spinosus, a lumpy-nosed chameleon that can fit on the tip of your thumb, doesn’t exactly inspire awe at first sight. But don’t let its size fool you: in one respect, this little lizard is ...

Acting a projectile, a chameleon’s tongue exits the mouth at such a high rate of speed that if you compared it to a car, it could travel from 0-60 miles per hour in 1/100 th of a second. You’ve ...

Gene Simmons has a show-stopping demonic tongue wag. But it’s nothing compared to the tongue action of a panther chameleon. BBC Earth’s web series Earth Unplugged put the quirky chameleon in its ...

Chameleons have a super-slimy secret. Despite their size, these old-world lizards are vicious predators that hunt mice, grasshoppers, flies, birds and even other chameleons. And it's all thanks to ...

Ramses V. Martinez, an assistant professor at Purdue University, and his students created this cover image. Chameleon tongue strikes inspired the team to create soft robots that catch live insects in ...

FORGET flypaper – why not catch pesky bugs chameleon-style, with the flick of a robot tongue? Alexis Debray, an engineer at Canon in Tokyo, Japan, has created an appendage that mimics the astonishing ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

A chilly, sluggish chameleon can still deliver a good tongue-lashing. High-speed video images show the lizards can catch prey with their rubber band-like tongues equally well whether their body ...

Imagine holding something that weighs nearly one-third as much as you do — with your tongue. Chameleons execute this impossible-sounding feat before every meal. Now scientists think they know how the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Chameleons, salamanders and many toads use stored elastic energy to launch their sticky tongues at unsuspecting insects located up to one-and-a-half body lengths away, catching ...