Visual signals, such as color patterns are an important communication medium for anemonefish. Researchers from Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology have recently elucidated how the patterns on ...

A new study led by the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has found that visual signals, such as color patterns, are an important communications medium for anemonefish residing around ...

How and why did diverse animal color patterns evolve? Explanations for pattern diversification typically emphasize the ecological forces that select for color patterns (e.g., camouflage or sexual ...

Because of their diversity, visual accessibility, and profound impact on the fitness of organisms in the wild, animal pigment patterns are one of the most fascinating traits found in nature. Although ...

In our newly published research in Science Advances, my student Ben Alessio and I propose a potential mechanism explaining how these distinctive patterns form—that could potentially be applied to ...

A team of researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) has discovered new insights into the evolution of color patterns in frogs and toads—collectively known as anurans. Animal color patterns can help them ...

Patterns on animal skin, such as zebra stripes and poison frog color patches, serve various biological functions, including temperature regulation, camouflage and warning signals. The colors making up ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — A Japanese research team led by Kyushu University Prof. Hiroyuki Sasaki said it has discovered a gene that determines the color patterns of the tricolored calico cat, known in ...

After reconstructing the color patterns of a well-preserved dinosaur from China, researchers have found that the long-lost species Psittacosaurus (meaning "parrot lizard," a reference to its ...