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 ...

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 ...

Biologists modified simple electronics to create a color vision test for fiddler crabs and other animals. Fiddler crabs have a simple solution to life's daily perils: run. University of Cincinnati ...

The novel tech should allow scientists and filmmakers to produce videos that accurately represent the colors seen by animals such as bees for the first time. Reading time 3 minutes Scientists say they ...

New research reveals signs of highly sensitive color vision in fish that live in the abyss beyond sunlight's reach An international team of researchers discovered a previously unknown visual system ...