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?

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 ...

Chameleons, famous for shifting colors to blend into their natural surroundings to avoid predators, may also be using their chromatic superpowers for a totally different reason: To win fights. This ...

Chameleons' remarkable color changes are not for camouflage but a sophisticated biological trick. Their skin cells, called ...

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 invisibility mode. But boy, have we been wrong all along! Those mesmerizing ...

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 them up in a ...

Mark D. Scherz, research scientist, Technical University Braunschweig Apr 22, 2020 Apr 22, 2020 0 A Furcifer pardalis (panther chameleon) sleeps in a tree in Madagascar. A sleeping Calumma ambreense, ...