From helping them find mates to bettering their ability to camouflage, marks on animals and birds serve various purposes.

While some plants can produce blue pigments because of anthocyanins, most creatures in the animal kingdom are unable to make blue pigments. Thus, the colour blue in animals is typically the result ...

Birds living in cities are usually more colorful and less brown. These colors help them survive better in urban environments.

The images below each show a scene as viewed by a human. Drag the slider to the left to see how an animal would see the same scene. Whereas human eyes contain three types of colour-detecting cells, ...

In addition, successful urban bird species have more elaborate colours in their plumage, which is especially true for females. Cities seem to favour more colourful birds -- probably because there are ...

Reptiles living in open habitats generally have brighter colouration than species living in denser vegetation. This is shown in a new study from Lund University in Sweden. The results suggest that ...

Using the latest camera technology, David Attenborough reveals the extraordinary ways in which animals use colour: to win a mate, to fight off rivals and to warn enemies. Show more The natural ...

Within species, color variations are found throughout the animal kingdom, including melanistic animals with more dark pigmentation and leucistic animals with a reduction of pigment. There are black ...

By examining the remains of pigment-containing structures called melanosomes, the researchers have been able to uncover what colour the fur of these animals might have been. Despite coming from ...

Bulls are red-green colourblind. They react to movement, not the colour of the matador’s cape, which is traditionally red. Owls see well in the dark but have limited colour vision. Their eyes ...

A recent study suggested two sea bream species could recognize divers by color. Several times during ... Lab at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, had the feeling that the fish he ...