Watch a chameleon tongue lash out and catch a bug in slow motion. I didn't think chameleons could look even cooler than they already do, but this video reveals the fascinating way a chameleon tongue ...

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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