A team of researchers has provided the first example of how color patterns on a coral reef fish species can drive its evolution into many distinct species. The researchers looked at feeding and mating ...

The colors and patterns of black swallowtails reveal the diversity of evolutionary dynamics acting on the sexes and the various life-history stages Six species of swallowtail butterflies occur locally ...

Visual signals, such as color patterns are an important communication medium for anemonefish. Researchers from Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology have recently elucidated how the patterns on ...

Many ladybirds have attractive color patterns consisting of black and red. A research team focused on the multicolored Asian ladybird beetle Harmonia axyridis (also known as the harlequin ladybird), ...

"It was eaten by a lot of other animals," Vinther said, and must have quickly evolved optimal colour patterns for camouflage. Psittacosaurus is the third dinosaur to have its colour deduced using ...

Butterflies colours warn predators that they contain toxins, which they get from the passion-vine plants they eat as caterpillars. Photo: Wikimedia Commons London: Butterflies are loved throughout the ...

1. Many non-rewarding orchid species mimic the signals of co-occurring food flowers and thereby attract food-seeking animal pollinators. These signals are often visually complex with a colour pattern ...