Chameleons change color in life and in death. Watch this extraordinary phenomenon as a female chameleon changes colors just ...

While some plants can produce blue pigments because of anthocyanins, most creatures in the animal kingdom are unable to make blue pigments.

Despite the popular myth that bulls become enraged by the colour red, they are colour-blind to it. Bulls have dichromatic ...

Some animals see the world in shades of grey, while others perceive limited colours. Here are 10 animals that are colourblind ...

It’s well known that dogs don’t see as many colors as we do – similar to color blindness in people. Whereas humans have three types of cones in our eyes, allowing us to identify combinations of red, ...

In the study of why and how animals look the way they do, color is king—at least, the range of color humans can see.

The images below each show a scene as viewed by a human. Drag the slider to the left to see how an animal would see the same scene. Whereas human eyes contain three types of colour-detecting cells, ...

A groundbreaking study by the University of Arizona has revealed fascinating insights into the evolution of colour vision and signalling in animals. Published in Biological Reviews, the research ...

Colour: it is a method of finding a mate ... But the Mandarin fish is one of just two species in the animal kingdom where blue colouration is known to be caused in this way. The other one is a closely ...

Through some fascinating demonstrations, we witness how language and memory influence colour perception. We also learn how animals see the world in ways invisible to humans. Some snakes ...

A recent study suggested two sea bream species could recognize divers by color. Several times during ... Lab at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, had the feeling that the fish he ...