Chameleons are famous for their ability to change color, but they don’t do it simply to blend into whatever background ...

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 ...

The end of a pet’s life is always a sad event. Seeing them get older can be hard to watch, but there is beauty in the long ...

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 ...

Chameleons are famous for their ability to change color, but they don’t do it simply to blend into whatever background they’re sitting on. Instead, their color shifts are controlled by special pigment ...

Controlling color Chameleons change color by contracting and relaxing certain cells in their skin that contain either crystals or pigments. The crystals are colorless or slightly yellow, but by lining ...

You’ve probably heard that chameleons change color to blend into their background in order to hide. But that might not actually be true. So what do they actually use this color-changing ability for?