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 ...

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 ...

Mantis shrimp appear in a variety of colors, from shades of browns to bright neon colors, serving as both a warning to predators and attraction to mates. (Roy L. Caldwell/UC Berkeley-NSF photo) Study ...

When you think of color-change artists of the animal world, you probably think chameleons, but these other cool beasts can change color, too. This cephalopod—that means big-headed, tentacled ...

Nature occasionally produces animals that seem dipped in gold, their fur, feathers, or scales glowing brilliantly in sunlight ...

The vivid colors and designs animals use to interact with their environments have awed and inspired since before people learned to draw on the cave wall. But how different creatures in the animal ...

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 ...

A few years ago, Professor Liz Tibbetts stumbled upon something surprising. She noticed that wasps had striking facial features—including fake eyelines and distinctive marks. At the time, people ...

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 ...