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 ...

We’ve all what animals see. Do they see the same way humans do in terms of colors, or is the vision of each animal based on their environment? Now, scientists might finally have the answer. In a ...

Gathering vision data for hundreds of vertebrates and invertebrates, biologists have deepened scientists' understanding of animal vision, including the colors they see. The researchers determined that ...

Jan. 23 (UPI) --A new video camera system is giving humans a glimpse into how animals see colors in motion as they navigate nature, researchers say. "Each animal has a unique set of photoreceptors, ...

Animals sculpt the optical properties of their tissues at the nanoscale to give themselves “structural colors.” New work is piecing together how they do it. Peacocks, panther chameleons, scarlet ...

I've long been interested in the ways in which different religions view and teach about nonhuman animals (animals) and the gulf between their teachings, and how they permit other animals to be treated ...