A new study has shown that the dottyback, a small predatory reef fish, can change the color of its body to imitate a variety of other reef fish species, allowing the dottyback to sneak up undetected ...

Illustration of the silver spinyfin (Diretmus argenteus)—the vertebrate with the highest number of opsin genes. Image: (Alexandra Viertler, University of Basel) A newly discovered visual system in ...

A team of researchers has provided the first example of how color patterns on a coral reef fish species can drive its evolution into many distinct species. The researchers looked at feeding and mating ...

Deep-diving fish have a problem: The only light that penetrates their watery environment is blue and green hardly enough of a palette for flashy color patterns. Now, a new study reveals these fishes' ...

New research reveals signs of highly sensitive color vision in fish that live in the abyss beyond sunlight's reach An international team of researchers discovered a previously unknown visual system ...

DEAR NOLA’S MOM: These peppy little fish, also known as Siamese fighting fish are customarily kept as solo pets. The main colors include: blue, red, turquoise, yellow, white and orange — and there are ...

The radiant plumage of flamingos wouldn’t be possible without their special diets. Neither would the color of salmon, or koi. The right food can even dye humans – especially babies. At a zoo I visited ...

A new study has shown that the dottyback, a small predatory reef fish, can change the colour of its body to imitate a variety of other reef fish species, allowing the dottyback to sneak up undetected ...