Opals! Photonic crystals! Structural color! Opals are examples of natural photonic crystals. They are composed of small ...

Did plants start making jazzy fruits and flowers before anyone on Earth could see color? Did that allow some animals to evolve color vision for foraging – and to eventually evolve dramatic ...

Image by PantherMediaSeller via Depositphotos. Winter brings about magical transformations in nature, and among the most fascinating are the animals that change color with the seasons. From the snowy ...

Invasive species known as nutria are emerging in new places in the Houston area, including the Pearland suburb.

A pair of biologists at Walla Walla University, in the U.S., have developed a way to calculate the energy costs for certain types of animals with color-changing abilities. In their study published ...

The strawberry poison-dart frog exhibits vivid colors that serve as a powerful warning signal to predators. Credit: John J. Wiens Researchers discovered that animal color vision evolved long before ...

They are one of the animals with the best sense of smell ... Previous studies have shown that African Elephants can distinguish between odor molecules with extremely tiny structural variations.

Dec. 6, 2024 — Desert ants of the Cataglyphis nodus species use the Earth's magnetic field for spatial orientation, but rely on a different component of the field than other insects. The survey ...

Dec. 5, 2024 — The fungus that causes coffee wilt disease repeatedly took up segments of DNA from a related fungal pathogen, which contributed to successive ...

The musician and his supermodel wife called upon architect Nicolò Bini to complete their lakefront home’s gutsy renovation ...

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