Chameleons are fancy lizards. They can move and focus each eye independently, they catch food with super long tongues, and they change colors! And if all that wasn't enough, new research has added something bizarre to their already impressive arsenal of color-changing abilities. Would you like this pin? You can get it in the Season 1 pin set available here: https://complexly.store/products/bizarre-beasts-season-one-pin-set Subscribe to the pin club here: https://complexly.store/products/bizarre-beasts-pin-subscription This month's pin is designed by Lukas Phelan. You can find out more about him and his work here: https://lukasphelan.com/ You can cancel any time by emailing hello@dftba.com Host: Hank Green (he/him) Follow us on socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/bizarrebeasts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bizarrebeastsshow/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BizarreBeastsShow/ #Chameleon #Lizards #BizarreBeasts #color ----- Sources: https://caltechletters.org/science/color-in-nature https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7368 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-19070-7 https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Chamaeleonidae/ https://academic.oup.com/cz/article/64/3/319/4979555 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-41959-8 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1556-4029.12978 ------ Images: https://www.videoblocks.com/ https://www.istockphoto.com/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/aries_tottle/27082092650/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/qmnonic/3675639120/in/photolist-dRBHuT-28Dz1FB-6CB8g6-7USq2t-6ANBsh-6B1vxr-qJKSaC-r1SjQX https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7368#Sec17 https://youtu.be/S9ye2evdaWI https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brookesia_micra_on_a_match_head.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parson%27s_Chameleon.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Lance-nosed_chameleon_(15904910651).jpg https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-19070-7#Abs1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-41959-8#Sec16 ------ Music: Theme by Josef "Tuna" Metesh https://www.epidemicsound.com/