(See videos of chameleon tongue projections.) Stored in the lizard’s throat pouch is a tongue bone surrounded by sheaths of elastic, collagenous tissue inside a tubular accelerator muscle.

They are the only lizards with zygodactyle feet, or pincers. These grasping feet are ideal for tree climbing. Chameleons also have an extremely extensile tongue. The tongue is used to snap up ...

The blue rod visible inside the lizard’s throat is attached to the chameleon’s famously long tongue. A muscle called the lingual accelerator muscle surrounds the rod, and its contraction stores the ...

A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body on ... Parson’s chameleon which can reach up to 68cm. These enormous lizards have ridges running from above the eyes to the nose forming ...

Some lizards can also shoot out their tongue far and super-fast, according to National Geographic: Chameleons’ tongues, which ...