Nature comes in a variety of striking colors, but all that beauty didn't evolve for our enjoyment. Conspicuous colors tend to be signals, often helping animals woo mates or warn predators. Yet the ...

Zebras, a children’s tale goes, became striped after “standing half in the shade and half out of it.” While the author, Rudyard Kipling, wasn’t a biologist, his story may hold some truth: research ...

A recent study has illuminated the evolutionary journey of color vision in animals, revealing a surprising timeline: animals developed the ability to see colors around 500 million years ago—well ...

The natural world has numerous animals, be it birds that grace the sky, fishes that trifle through water, or animals that ...

A new paper from the University of Melbourne reveals how animals use beautiful but unreliable iridescent colours as communication signals. Special adaptations enable animals to control how these ...

• Many animals, including bees, birds and even mammals like reindeer and mice can perceive ultraviolet light. • At the other end of the visible light spectrum, human eyes have receptors that are ...

Animals change colour primarily for survival. This ability, called chromatic adaptation, helps them blend into their surroundings to avoid predators or to sneak up on prey. It's an essential form of ...

Nature never ceases to amaze with its clever adaptations, and eye colour changes in animals stand out as one of the coolest ...

Ahead of Holi, the animal protection organisation, Humane World for Animals India (formerly Humane Society ...

A new paper sheds light on the colorful world of animal communication, highlighting the challenges of studying accurately how iridescent colors work in nature. A new paper from the University of ...