We’ve always been told that if you watch a chameleon closely behind any background, it flickers its colors and slips into invisibility mode. But boy, have we been wrong all along! Those mesmerizing ...

You’ve probably heard that chameleons change color to blend into their background in order to hide. But that might not actually be true. So what do they actually use this color-changing ability for?

Color change in animals is a response shaped by evolution. Each species has developed its own method and reason for this ability, like an overreliance on light or temperature cues, or a physiological ...

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 lives they live. By the time our pets reach their last moments, many of them ...

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 ...

St. Pierre the Panther Chameleon is a relatively new resident of The Lake Superior Zoo. At the time of filming, he was about 7 to 8 weeks old. Males of these species have a very bright color palette.

Controlling color Chameleons change color by contracting and relaxing certain cells in their skin that contain either crystals or pigments. The crystals are colorless or slightly yellow, but by lining ...