A recent study has illuminated the evolutionary journey of color vision in animals, revealing a surprising timeline: animals developed the ability to see colors around 500 million years ago—well ...

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 ...

Nature comes in a variety of striking colors, but all that beauty didn't evolve for our enjoyment. Conspicuous colors tend to be signals, often helping animals woo mates or warn predators. Yet the ...

The nonvenomous Arizona mountain kingsnake, which resembles a venomous coral snake, has a survival advantage by warning off would-be predators that avoid colorful coral snakes. Colors are widely used ...

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

A new analysis of the eyes of some of the longest-lived animals on Earth could provide molecular clues about long-lasting vision. Scientists had long assumed that Greenland sharks (Somniosus ...