The lizard can shoot its tongue out 2.5 times the length of its body at about 8,500 feet per second. The fact that the speediest chameleon tongue belongs to a tiny member of the group actually ...

Chameleons produce mucus on their tongue that is about 400 times more viscous than human saliva, ... Now scientists think they know how the lizards do it. The secret is in the spit, ...

The tongue of the chameleon shoots out at high speeds like a rubber band gun, working well even during freezing weather, ... Sexual deceit helps lady-boy lizards mate, Science Online, 04 Mar 2009; ...

But don’t let its size fool you: in one respect, this little lizard is among the most powerful machines on Earth. It’s got a tongue that moves like a supercar.

Given that muscle performance diminishes when it gets colder, and that these lizards are ectothermic (cold-blooded), one might think their tongue prowess would trial off sharply as temperatures drop.

This story appears in the September 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. For sheer breadth of freakish anatomical features, the chameleon has few rivals. A tongue far longer than its body ...

Chameleon Tongues Stay Speedy In The Cold Lizards normally can't move very quickly when the temperature drops. But a new study shows that chameleons have a special adaptation that allows them to ...

The chameleon has evolved a sticky tongue that can snap out to about twice its body length at 10 metres per second, ... the lizard’s lightweight tongue exerts very little force on the target.

Chameleon tongue strikes inspired the team to create soft robots that catch live insects in the blink of an eye. (Image provided) Chameleons, salamanders and many toads use stored elastic energy to ...