Chameleon tongues are stored inside of their mouths, coiled up like springs. When the chameleon is ready for a tasty meal, it rapidly uncoils and extends its tongue at a high speed (up to 13 miles ...

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 ...

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 ...

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and even held up a spoon by twining her tongue around it like a chameleon. Having a supersized stamp sticker has licked down doors for Tapper. “My favorite thing about being a record holder has ...

There’s a story that the chameleon looks so bizarre because it was made by the Devil from spare parts. It is said to have the tail of a monkey, the skin of a crocodile, the tongue of a toad ...

These grasping feet are ideal for tree climbing. Chameleons also have an extremely extensile tongue. The tongue is used to snap up insects and out-of-reach food, and can be up to twice the length ...

The team collected saliva by tempting Chamaeleo calyptratus with crickets placed behind glass microscope slides. When the chameleon launched its tongue, it would hit the glass, leaving some of its ...