Tiny Chameleon Has ‘Sports Car’ Tongue

The smaller the chameleon, the more powerful the tongue, say researchers. Writing in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers from Brown University say that a small chameleon that would fit on your thumb can project its tongue from 0 to 97 kilometers per hour in a mere one hundredth of a second. "Smaller species have higher performance than larger species," said Christopher Anderson, a postdoctoral research associate at Brown’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary...

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