Male panther chameleons can grow to 21 inches in length but are typically smaller at 12 to 18 inches. Females grow to be about 12 to 14 inches long. Males usually weigh between 140 and 180 grams.

Chameleons' Color-Changing Secrets Unveiled Published Mar 11, 2015 at 1:19 PM EDT Updated Mar 20, 2016 at 2:16 PM EDT A male panther chameleon (Furcifer pardalis) photographed in Madagascar.

A male panther chameleon (Furcifer pardalis). | Wolfgang Kaehler/GettyImages. Most chameleons have long, grasping tails that basically function like a fifth limb.

The male panther chameleon ... How panther chameleons achieve this completely reversible color change has fascinated scientists, but it’s not all that easy to study these reptiles, ...

To study this, the researchers observed the male panther chameleon of Madagascar—which isn't easy given how skilled they are at shade shifting. "I assure you: In Madagascar, ...

A male panther chameleon changes color in response to seeing another male. The video is sped up, and includes the animal's starting color in the lower right for comparison. Why It Matters ...

A male panther chameleon (Furcifer pardalis) finds a perch on a branch in Madagascar. Michel C. Milinkovitch / LANEvol.org March 10, 2015, 3:41 PM EDT / Updated March 10, 2015, 3:37 PM EDT ...

Ember, a young male panther chameleon, is a so-called red bar, a variety that’s native to the Ambilobe district in northern Madagascar. His torso has red and green zebra stripes plus an aqua ...

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 ...

Fig. 3 Colour variation in male panther chameleons. You can find the full paper in Molecular Ecology under title "Phylogeography and support vector machineclassification of colour variation in ...

Studying male panther chameleons from Madagascar, a cross-disciplinary team of biologists and physicists from the University of Geneva found that the reptiles' skin is covered by a thick layer of ...

Chameleons also use colors to broadcast their sexual availability. A male Panther Chameleon looking for a mate will show off a colorful mix of blue, green, orange, yellow, red and white in an ...