Chameleons are interesting animals not only because of their ability to blend in with their surroundings by changing their skin color, but also because of their zippy fast tongues, which are used to ...

Chameleons can rocket their tongues at prey in a blur, frogs can slam sticky tongues onto insects with forces several times their own body weight, and hummingbirds seem to sip nectar with impossible ...

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 ...

Chameleons have to work fast to snag a cricket for their next meal. Fortunately, these little reptiles have some of the fastest and most powerful tongues of any kind of vertebrate -- and new research ...

The tiniest chameleons punch higher than their weight class, packing relatively more power into their tongues than their larger relatives. Small is mighty for these lizards, which can accelerate their ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — New measurements show a chameleon tongue zapping out with the highest power output (adjusted for animal size) yet documented for a vertebrate motion. The small South African ...

A stunningly efficient hunter, the chameleon relies on an impressive biological arsenal that includes colour-changing camouflage, panoramic vision, and lots of patience. And then there's that ...

When catching crickets, small chameleons can project their tongues farther than the bigger guys (at least proportionately), achieving projection distances of two-and-a-half body lengths from their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chameleons and salamanders don't live in the same environments, but both evolved the same projectile tongue mechanism. Chameleons ...

A new study reports one of the most explosive movements in the animal kingdom: the mighty tongue acceleration of a chameleon just a couple of inches long. The research illustrates that to observe some ...

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 ...