Chameleons have a number of distinctive features that set them apart from other lizards. These include grasping feet, a ballistic tongue, a coiled tail, colour changing skin and large mobile eyes that can be moved independently of one another. Juan Daza, of Sam Houston State University in Texas explained: “Chameleon eyes are like security cameras, […]
An international team of scientists have studied the fossil of a lobopodian, a small extinct arthropod with a segmented trunk and multiple short stubby legs. The fossil has been named Cardiodictyon catenulum and is dated as 525 million years old. Using sophisticated scanning techniques the researchers were able to identify the creature’s brain. Nicholas Strausfeld […]