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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

In the experiment, researchers used high-resolution filming to record the color changing behavior of five adult male, four adult female, and four younger panther chameleons.

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 ...

The changing color of a chameleon’s body is an impressive sight—but how it happens has long been a significant scientific question without a compelling answer. Now, researchers have identified ...

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 thing, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...