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 ...

Then the chameleon will shoot out its long, sticky tongue and pull the insect into its mouth. These chameleons have a tongue that can extend to more than 2.5 times the length of their body. In ...

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A chameleon’s tongue is twice the length of its body on ... Hopefully at some point a reptile expert pointed out that the chameleon shows its most dazzling colours when it is displaying to ...

She’s a panther chameleon at the Louisiana Purchase ... in the rainforest and wait until prey comes along. “Their tongue shoots out like a rocket snags the insect and brings it back in ...