Tiniest chameleons have fastest tongues

Chameleons long, strong tongues pack the biggest wallops on land. To find out just how fast and powerful these lickers are, researchers used highspeed cameras to film different species of chameleon as they snapped up a cricket treat. Learn more: Note added for clarification: the tongue of R. spinosus has a peak acceleration of about 2500 meters per second (m, s). The units for this value are mislabeled in the video as m, s.