September 7, 2021 (Huntsville, Alabama)- Members of the Felidae family, more commonly referred to as cats, come in a variety of sizes and a range of varying fur colors and patterns. Tigers with black ...

Why does a Caribbean angelfish sometimes resemble its Indo-Pacific cousin, even though they have never lived in the same ocean? Why do coral reefs harbor such a wide range of stripes, spots and ...

A team of researchers has discovered new insights into the evolution of color patterns in frogs and toads -- collectively known as anurans. Animal color patterns can help them camouflage with their ...

Many ladybirds have attractive color patterns consisting of black and red. A research team focused on the multicolored Asian ladybird beetle Harmonia axyridis (also known as the harlequin ladybird), ...

Many butterflies develop wing patterns that mimic other species to protect themselves from predators. While growing complex body parts like wings involves many genes, the difference between two ...

The genetic underpinnings of pigmentation and colour patterning in fish encompass a complex interplay of gene regulation, cell fate determination and evolutionary innovation. Neural crest cells, which ...

Jiff the collie represents “shaded yellow,” one of five coat color patterns in domestic dogs identified by Danika Bannasch at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and collaborators in the U.S.

On a day in October 2006, I sat in a dark laboratory at Yale University and zoomed in on the fossilized ink of a 200-million-year-old squid relative under an electron microscope. An ocean of ...