Yellow is one of nature’s most attractive colours, giving an eye-catchy appearance to a variety of animals around the world.

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 ...

Nature comes in a variety of striking colors, but all that beauty didn't evolve for our enjoyment. Conspicuous colors tend to ...

Nature is full of colours, and each one plays its own special role. Some animals use colour to hide from danger, while others ...

The color of an animal depends on the light that is reflected from its skin, fur or feathers. Most animals are pretty much stuck with the color they have. However, some animals exhibit dramatic ...

Discover the vibrant world of snakes, often overlooked but boasting stunning colors and patterns. From the gold-ringed cat ...

Zebras, a children’s tale goes, became striped after “standing half in the shade and half out of it.” While the author, Rudyard Kipling, wasn’t a biologist, his story may hold some truth: research ...

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 ...

Wayne Davies is supported by Future Fellowship and Discovery Project grants awarded by the Australian Research Council (FT110100176 and DP140102117). Shaun Collin receives funding from the Australian ...

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 ...