A bright red splash on a butterfly’s wing is more than a pretty pattern. It is a warning label, honed by millions of years of ...

Evolution seems to follow a script more often than expected. Researchers found that distantly related butterflies and moths ...

Picture a primordial Earth: a world of muted browns, grays and greens. Fast forward to today, and Earth teems with a kaleidoscope of colors. From the stunning feathers of male peacocks to the vivid ...

Why does a Caribbean angelfish sometimes resemble its Indo-Pacific cousin, even though they have never lived in the same ocean? Why do coral reefs harbor such a wide range of stripes, spots and ...

Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color vision needed to see them. The natural world is awash with color, and many ...

Butterflies and a moth species reused the same two genes, ivory and optix, to create similar warning colors over millions of ...

Scientists have shown that evolution has been using the same genetic "cheat sheet" for over 120 million years, suggesting ...