Six species of swallowtail butterflies occur locally, and they combine yellow, black, orange, blue and red in several diverse patterns that invariably catch the eye. We can marvel at them, but our ...

Even thousands of years ago people wore clothing with colorful patterns made from plant and animal-based dyes. Chemists have created new analytical methods to examine textiles from China and Peru that ...

Butterfly wings show a spectacular diversity of patterns of colours and shapes both within and among species. Butterfly wing patterns are ideal systems for an integrated study of the reciprocal ...

In new research, scientists have discovered a genetic mechanism that is responsible for the colourful patterns on the wings of butterflies. Their findings were published in the Proceedings of the ...

In many animals, skin coloration and its patterns play a crucial role in camouflage, communication, or thermoregulation. In the corn snake, some morphs display red, yellow, or pink blotches, and their ...

In our newly published research in Science Advances, my student Ben Alessio and I propose a potential mechanism explaining how these distinctive patterns form—that could potentially be applied to ...