Here’s a great article with pictures illustrating that the chameleon has significant competition in the lizard-camouflage game. Yes, there is a lizard in this picture.  Amazing, no?

Is this an awesome photo or what?  I wish I’d taken it, but I didn’t – this was snapped by Quinton Robinson.  I snatched it from Neatorama.com after they snatched it from National Geographic. Amazing photo, Quinton!

Across the street from my childhood home was open desert, and when I was about 8 years old and was feeling the freedom of my first bicycle, my friends and I would go out and ride for miles down dirt roads that crisscrossed through the cactus and brush. We explored ruins of adobe buildings where [...]