The rainbow mantis shrimp may look like an alien, but they have sophisticated vision unlike any other animal, including ...

From velvety purples to fiery reds, many people can see a spectrum of vivid colors via the human eye. Others, however, may have limited hue perception due to certain conditions. Animals, on the other ...

A recent study finds that color vision evolved in animals more than 100 million years before the emergence of colorful fruits and flowers. And there has been a dramatic explosion of color signals in ...

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 ...

Dogs inspire an enormous amount of curiosity about how they interpret the world, and their vision remains one of the most misunderstood areas of canine science. The common belief that dogs see only in ...

We all know what chameleons are capable of: changing into a variety of colors to match their surroundings. They're one of the ...