In the study of why and how animals look the way they do, color is king—at least, the range of color humans can see. A ...

Like mimicry, camouflage can be "protective," to avoid the attention of predators, or "aggressive," to allay suspicion while the predator attacks its prey. The praying mantis that has evolved a ...

So if camouflage confers such an obvious survival benefit to prey species like guppies when it comes to predator avoidance, what possible advantage could there be to sporting colors and patterns ...

But they also knew frogs deploy another successful anti-predation strategy: camouflage. Frogs can vary widely in how they look ... That doesn’t mean that brain size has absolutely nothing to do with ...

Camouflage makes animals very difficult to ... But this octopus also has a superpower, it can change its colour and shape. When a predator approaches, it changes its colour and its shape to ...

It’s absolutely incredible. “That’s just how they’ve managed to evolve, they’re an ambush predator so they rely on being able to camouflage themselves, otherwise they would literally ...