Colour-Changing Camouflage Animals: Nature is full of colour-changing wonders. Many creatures, like the famous Chameleon and the deep-sea Octopus, rely on specialised skin cells called chromatophores ...

In nature, the ability to change color can be key to survival. Vision is a very important sense in much of the animal kingdom, and many animals have come up with unique ways to use this sense to ...

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 ...

Daniel Hanley received funding from the National Geographic Society. Vera Vasas does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from ...

Animals sculpt the optical properties of their tissues at the nanoscale to give themselves “structural colors.” New work is piecing together how they do it. Peacocks, panther chameleons, scarlet ...

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 ...