Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A black-backed dwarf kingfisher sitting on a branch. Nature produces some truly extravagant costumes, and birds have evolved more ...

Many mammals have fur the color of brown and black. Why don't they have more exotic colors, like purple and neon pink?

My friend Trip Lamb’s recent photographs from Africa reinforced for me the value of vicarious ecology, which I define as enjoying someone else’s outdoor experiences. Vicarious ecology offers ways to ...

Bee-eater birds are stunningly colorful, but their diet of bees and other insects puts them at odds with humans.

Yale ornithologist Richard Prum has spent years studying the molecules and nanostructures that give many bird species their rich colorful plumage, but nothing prepared him for what he found in ...

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“I feel there is no way to avoid thinking of color when you think of hummingbirds”, said Gabriela Venable, who is the lead author of the newly published study of hummingbird color (ref). “We give them ...