How Do Chameleons Change Color

New research shows chameleons actively tune nanocrystals to change their color. For a 10day free trial, check out Chameleon research in Nature Communications: Photonic Crystals Cause Active Colour Change in Chameleons This research was carried out by Jérémie Teyssier, Suzanne V. Saenko, Dirk van der Marel Michel C. Milinkovitch at the University of Geneva Department of Quantum Matter Physics and the Laboratory of Artificial and Natural Evolution (LANE) Original videos of chameleons are here: Additional details available at: For correspondence: Michel C. Milinkovitch, Laboratory of Artificial Natural Evolution (LANE), Dept. of Genetics Evolution, University of Geneva, Switzerland. The melanin spreading out video is courtesy of Richard Wheeler: Special thanks to: Harry, Jo, Daniella and Raquel for helping me produce and film this video it looks great thanks to you