Biologists have long been fascinated by the amazing diversity of animal colour patterns. Despite much interest, the underlying evolutionary and developmental mechanisms contributing to their rich ...

Beauty in the living world amazes poets, philosophers and scientists alike. Nobel prize laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Director of the Department for Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for ...

From decorative tiles to maximalist wallpaper, our latest lookbook explores bathrooms where striking patterned surfaces are paired with bold colours to make a statement. Offering an alternative to the ...

Same gene causes very different adaptive colour traits in moths and tropical butterflies Cortex gene allowed peppered moths to blend in with industrial pollution It also causes variation in the bright ...

The colour of prehistoric animals is almost impossible to determine, because fossilisation does not preserve it. But under exceptional circumstances, colour patterns survive. In the Crato Formation in ...

Scientists guided by small structures preserved in fossilized skin have deciphered the colour and camouflage pattern of a little dinosaur with a parrot-like beak and bristles on its tail that roamed ...

Each strand of hair on my tabby cat has a series of colours along its length. How does each follicle produce a hair that changes colour as it grows? Tyler Jordan, a Canadian PhD student in the College ...