The chameleon's uncanny ability to change color has long mystified people, but now the lizard's secret is out: Chameleons can rapidly change color by adjusting a layer of special cells nestled ...

Their conclusion: The color-changing takes place via crystals— iridophores, they’re called—arranged under the chameleons’ skin.

To investigate how the reptiles change color, researchers studied five adult male, four adult female and four juvenile panther chameleons (Furcifer pardalis), a type of lizard that lives in ...

How panther chameleons achieve this completely reversible color change has fascinated scientists, but it’s not all that easy to study these reptiles, Milinkovitch said. For one thing, they’re ...

Only mature males can change color, he says, and they do so when they see another chameleon male or a potentially receptive female, for the twin purposes of intimidation or attraction.

Above: Figure 1: Colour change and iridophore types in panther chameleons. "Reversible colour change is shown for two males (m1 and m2): during excitation (white arrows), background skin shifts ...

Skin that changes color according to one’s emotional status may be the stuff of human nightmares; for chameleons, though, it’s essential to survival. The lizards’ hue-changing skin, for one ...

But HOW chameleons change color has been a bit of a mystery until now. A team of researchers at the University of Geneva in Switzerland used several high tech methods to figure it out.

Chameleons are perhaps the most well-known animals that have the ability to change color, but scientists didn't know exactly how it was done until now. Unlike other creatures that disperse ...

The panther chameleon, long thought to be a single species of color-changing reptile, is actually 11 different species, a new study finds.

St. Pierre the Panther Chameleon is a relatively new resident of The Lake Superior Zoo. At the time of filming, he was about 7 to 8 weeks old. Males of these species have a very bright color palette.

The chameleon's uncanny ability to change color has long mystified people, but now the lizard's secret is out: Chameleons can rapidly change color by adjusting a layer of special cells nestled within ...