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

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

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

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 ...

The weather is not the only thing that is changing in Alabama. Along with lower temperatures, fall colors are also making an ...

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

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

The prolonged dryness, cold nights, and some windy days have taken many of the leaves that remained on Pennsylvania’s trees.

“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 ...

Dietary protein absorption in neonatal mammals and fishes relies on the function of a specialized and conserved population of highly absorptive lysosome rich enterocytes (LREs). The gut microbiome has ...