October 29, 2019 Chameleon's tongue strike inspires fast-acting robots that catch live insects in the blink of an eye WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Chameleons, salamanders and many toads use stored elastic ...

With a lightning-fast flick of its tongue, a hungry chameleon can fetch dinner. Biologists have long assumed that the rough, sticky nature of its tongue enabled this feat.

Cold-proof tongue allows early chameleon to catch early insect Chameleons are some of the most versatile of lizards. They live in baking deserts and freezing mountaintops and part of their success ...

While capable of slight changes in color, much of the time they are a dull gray-brown with rusty accents – a coloration that helps them blend in with the lichen and moss-covered bark of the trees they ...

Slip of the tongue: Chameleon's sticky secret revealed A stunningly efficient hunter, the chameleon relies on an impressive biological arsenal that includes colour-changing camouflage, panoramic ...

Despite their nonchalant appearance, chameleons are formidable predators, leaving little chance to their prey. During a capture, their tongue whips out with an acceleration up to 1500 m/s² and extends ...

The study was carried out using a high-speed camera shooting at 3,000 frames per second (fps). The video shows the rapid recoil of elastic tissues in the chameleon's tongue when it strikes to ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk News) Chameleons, salamanders and many toads use stored elastic energy to launch their sticky tongues at unsuspecting insects located up to one-and-a-half body lengths away, catching them ...