Visual signals, such as color patterns are an important communication medium for anemonefish. Researchers from Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology have recently elucidated how the patterns on ...

When fish suddenly change color, there are little photoreceptors embedded deep within their skin keeping watch to ensure the color is just right, according to new research. For the first time, ...

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Despite the vast evolutionary gulf between humans and the three-spined stickleback fish, the two species have adopted a common genetic strategy to acquire the skin pigmentation that helps each species ...

In the dim light of dusk, the world appears gray. That's because we, like most vertebrates, have just on type of rod opsin, the light-sensitive pigment in our eyes that lets us see in low light.

A newly discovered visual system in deep-sea fish could allow them to discern predators from prey in the low-light conditions found at the bottom of the ocean, new research suggests. A team led by ...

Fish that have never known sunshine could be able to see the world in shades of blue and green we can’t even imagine. By JoAnna Klein The silver spinyfin, or little dori, inhabits a layer of the deep ...

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' ...

A common aquarium fish has given researchers the inspiration for a new type of color-shifting device (ACS Nano 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b00822). The technology might one day provide soldiers with ...

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 ...