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 ...

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), ...

Colour patterns (e.g. irregular, spotted or barred forms) are widespread in the animal kingdom, yet their potential role as signals of quality has been mostly neglected. However, a review of the ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Kipling would have us believe that the leopard got its spots to hide in the ‘stripy, speckly, patchy-blatchy shadows’ of the African forest. But the reality behind the big cat’s distinctive coat is ...