Nature comes in a variety of striking colors, but all that beauty didn't evolve for our enjoyment. Conspicuous colors tend to be signals, often helping animals woo mates or warn predators. Yet the ...

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 ...

Not all animals perceive the world in color the way humans do. Evolution has equipped each species with unique visual abilities tailored to their needs, whether it’s spotting predators, hunting prey, ...

We’ve all what animals see. Do they see the same way humans do in terms of colors, or is the vision of each animal based on their environment? Now, scientists might finally have the answer. In a ...