This blog explores animals in the shades that often represent the emotions and preferences of people. Whether your favorite shade is red, blue, green, yellow, pink, purple, black, or white, there is ...

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 ...

Happy Halloween! They might look ghostly, but white animals are not ghosts. Here's the science behind why some creatures lose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nature comes in a variety of striking colors, but all that beauty didn't evolve for our enjoyment. Conspicuous colors tend to be ...

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

Animals are living color. Wasps buzz with painted warnings. Birds shimmer their iridescent desires. Fish hide from predators with body colors that dapple like light across a rippling pond. And all ...

Nicholas Vincent is a passionate environmentalist and freelance writer. He is deeply committed to promoting... Nicholas Vincent is a passionate environmentalist and freelance writer. He is deeply ...

If you've ever wished you could see the world though the eyes of another animal, we have good news for you. We also wondered about that and, being scientists who specialize in color vision, have ...

Through their studies of bones, fossils, and geology, paleontologists have uncovered the prehistoric worlds of Earth's past. We watch movies and TV shows of computer generated versions of long-extinct ...

When I was growing up, an albino squirrel briefly took up residence in the large elm tree in front of my home. Spotting the squirrel quickly became an exciting event in the day-to-day life of the ...

Why do some animals have bright colors that impress mates while others use them to ward off predators? It depends on the activity schedule of their ancestors, new research indicates. High up in a tree ...

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 ...