Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the chameleon gets aroused in some way, be the excitement be the result of a threat or of a Ryan Gosling-esque male, the ...

Chameleons are famous for their ability to change color, but they don’t do it simply to blend into whatever background ...

The end of a pet’s life is always a sad event. Seeing them get older can be hard to watch, but there is beauty in the long ...

Chameleons are famous for their ability to change color, but they don’t do it simply to blend into whatever background they’re sitting on. Instead, their color shifts are controlled by special pigment ...

As every grade-school kid will confirm, chameleons are special because they can change color. But how these little critters pull off their magic act has always been a little fuzzy. For a long time, ...

In dwarf chameleons, evolutionary shifts in the capacity for color change are associated with increasingly conspicuous signals used in contests and courtship rather than by the need to match different ...

If last month's Twitter storm over #TheDress taught us anything — and that's up for debate — it's that the way we perceive color works in weird ways. Over millennia, chameleons have used that to their ...

Today's blog post is for all you who are fascinated by science, how things work in the animal world and especially for the reptile lovers out there. We all know that chameleons change colors. They do ...

What a great question, Ikechukwu! It doesn’t have a simple answer, though: yes, chameleons do change color when they sleep, but we think it happens in a different way to when they’re awake. People ...

A Furcifer pardalis (panther chameleon) sleeps in a tree in Madagascar. Curious Kids is a series for children in which we ask experts to answer questions from kids. Can chameleons change color when ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...