Typically, females appear less colorful than males; this adaptation helps protect females from predators. Such an adaptation ...

Whatever the evolutionary advantage, animals' color is inextricably intertwined with their environment, be it the bright ...

The origin of these differences in plumage has puzzled scientists for centuries: did colorful feathers evolve in the tropics or do tropical birds have colorful ancestors that flocked to the region ...

Tropical birds get their colors from a combination of brilliant pigments and structural color. Eliason's work focuses on structural color, so he wanted to explore that element of tropical bird ...

Researchers described biofluorescence in 37 of the 45 known species of birds-of-paradise, found only in remote tropical forests and woodland habitats of Papua New Guinea, eastern Indonesia and ...

These colorful, medium-sized birds, once abundant in Guam’s limestone ... and its partners spent years restoring the atoll’s tropical forests and eradicating invasive species before the ...

Thumbing through my field guides for North American species, it seemed to me that North American birds, on average, are not as colorful as tropical species. This was even true when comparing the ...

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