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 ...

The zebrafish, a small fresh water fish, owes its name to a striking pattern of blue stripes alternating with golden stripes. Three major pigment cell types, black cells, reflective silvery cells, and ...

Most horses today are treasured for their ability to run, work, or be ridden, but have lost their wild-type camouflage: pale hair with zebra-like dark stripes known as the Dun pattern. Now an ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of why some closely-related species of an iconic reef fish have vastly different colour patterns, while others look very similar. Scientists have solved the mystery ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Who wouldn’t want a pair of colour-shifting, design-changing sneakers? Especially if you can pick your colour and pattern? A company named ShiftWear has developed a prototype (video above), which you ...