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The colors and patterns of black swallowtails reveal the diversity of evolutionary dynamics acting on the sexes and the various life-history stages Six species of swallowtail butterflies occur locally ...

Stanford researchers have developed a flexible material that can quickly change its surface texture and colors, offering potential applications in camouflage, art, robotics, and even nanoscale ...

A study published by Nature Ecology & Evolution shows that the distinctive coat patterns we recognize in today's favorite dog breeds aren't actually due to mutation and domesticated breedings, as ...

After reconstructing the color patterns of a well-preserved dinosaur from China, researchers have found that the long-lost species Psittacosaurus (meaning "parrot lizard," a reference to its ...

Mother lizards can induce different color patterns in their offspring in response to social cues, reports research published June 10 in the online early edition of the journal Ecology Letters. Female ...

Those of us who grew up coloring remember the cardinal rule: stay inside the lines. But those who pick up the Patterns of the Universe coloring book have to stay in the sines (and cosines and tangents ...