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. A ...

Dan Simmonds is head keeper at London Zoo, which is home to more than 14,000 animals from across the world. He talked Bitesize through the camouflage techniques used by four of the creatures there ...

For highly social animals, being alone can be stressful – often leading to poor health and anxiety – but solitary animals do ...

Animals have evolved a range of camouflage tactics, from simple colour matching to sophisticated mimicry. See if you can spot the creatures in the photos below - drag the slider to reveal them. Will ...

Masters of camouflage, like the Cyanea Octopus and Flounders, have adapted the remarkable ability to change colours, helping ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

What cells and specialized organs make such crypsis possible for one of the older evolutionary groups of animals ... within milliseconds (Hanlon, 2007). Camouflage using chromatophores is ...

How do scientists study the behavior of dinosaurs, who died 65 million years ago? After all, dinosaur fossils are rare enough ...

Cuttlefish use visual tricks to avoid being eaten. New research shows how they deploy similar camouflage to bamboozle their ...

Winter deprives us of the many colors other seasons bring. Fortunately, harbingers of spring are already here, from migrating ...