Chameleons' eye movements baffled scientists for centuries—until a breakthrough revealed the surprising truth.
Scans reveal unique spiral optic nerves in chameleons, solving a 2,000-year-old mystery about how they move their eyes.
Chameleons are fancy lizards. They can move and focus each eye independently, they catch food with super long tongues, and ...
For more than two millennia, people have watched chameleons swivel their turreted eyes in different directions and wondered how such a small reptile pulls off a trick that seems to defy basic anatomy.
For the first time, researchers have captured the chameleon’s coiled optic nerve using contrast enhanced computed tomography. Chameleons’ wandering eyes have fascinated and puzzled scientists since ...
Most of us know that chameleons are lizards, and some of us even know that they mostly live their lizard lives in trees. Not many of us know that chameleons have their toes fused in opposing bundles ...
Time now for our science news roundup from Short Wave, NPR's science podcast. And we have the show's two hosts here, Regina Barber and Emily Kwong. Hello. REGINA BARBER, BYLINE: Hey. EMILY KWONG, ...