Many organisms leverage showy colors for attracting mates. Because color is a property of light (determined by its wavelength ...

Cuttlefish attract prospective sexual partners by creating a pattern on their skin, based on the orientation of light waves.

Every critter on this planet that relies on a sexual means of reproduction has its own way of luring in a mate – but ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Flamboyant sexual ornaments serve as conspicuous visual signals optimized to the visual receptors and perception of potential ...

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. A person might wear ...

NEW YORK, NY — Anything with three hearts, blue blood and skin that can change colors like a display in Times Square is likely to turn heads. Meet Sepia bandensis, known more descriptively as the ...