TIL: How Chameleons Change Color

National Geographic
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Biology Ecology
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Life Sciences
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TIL: How Chameleons Change Color

New research suggests that the way chameleons change color is very different from what scientists had assumed. Join filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer Jason Jaacks as he explains how the color change is actually controlled by nanocrystals in a top layer of the lizards' skin.

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