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Colors are widely used in communication within and among animal species. For example, peacocks proudly display their vibrant ...

Across the animal kingdom, birds are some of the most colourful creatures of all. But how did all the amazingly coloured ...

From the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro to the shoulders of pirates: parrots are synonymous with color for people across the world. In a study published in the journal Science, scientists from The ...

New Study Maps Dramatic 100-Million-Year Explosion in Color Signals Used by Animals Nov. 7, 2024 — A recent study finds that color vision evolved in animals more than 100 million years before ...

Humanity is lucky to reside on a planet circling a star with plentiful radiation, illuminating the world around us in ...

Tweaking the chemical composition of a parrot-specific pigment can shift feathers from red to yellow or green.

The distinct property of red light resonating with deep skin and blood, such that our bodies tend to glow in a very smooth, ...

A creature that scuttled along the seafloor 450 million years ago has been preserved in a rare and striking fossil that ...

That was the case for Luke Parry, a paleobiology professor at Oxford University, who announced this week that he had ...

“As well as having their beautiful and striking golden color, these fossils are spectacularly preserved,” study co-author and University of Oxford paleontologist Luke Parry said in a statement. “They ...

The ancient, gilt creatures represent a new species, and hint at the anatomy of an iconic group of arthropods.