Nature’s natural colors can be breathtaking. Tropical birds are famous for their brightly colored feathers, and many fish ...

Far from its home in Indonesia, a brightly colored creature moved around in an aquarium. Scientists peered into the tank, studying their pet-turned-specimen — and discovered it was a new species ...

Reason to be colorful. Many of these animals hold clues that could help answer the question of why such colorful displays evolved. Research published in 2022 showed that all brightly colored ...

There have also been other theories proposed to resolve this paradox of the brightly colored amphibians. One of them proposes that predators might be initially wary to attack novel prey. Another ...

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 reveals. Species that ...

Once the new and improved Public Square opens the center of downtown will be ready to stand alone as a public space but it will ...

Among aquatic animals, brightly colored animals are more likely to live in a brightly colored coral reef (where they can blend in from a distance, but stand out to potential mates that are up close).

Mantis shrimp (Stomatopoda) are brightly colored crustaceans that live on reefs. ... Humans and most other animals use three color-receptors to see the spectrum of light.

Footage of the rare animal was captured off the coast of Senegal. ... Researchers from the Zoological Society of London say they filmed a specimen of the brightly colored West African seahorse ...

Plants use color to great advantage, various forms of color advertising being the most apparent. In some species brightly colored flowers attract insects essential for pollination.

Most animals cannot make blue pigments, but these ones have found a few workarounds. ... as brightly colored peacocks are more attractive to peahens and are thus more likely to find mates.

It may feel like a new, brightly colored lobster has been pulled off the New England coast and onto your social media feeds every other week over the last few months. Maybe you’ve seen a rare ...