The best way for an animal to camouflage itself and avoid getting eaten is to disguise itself as an inanimate object, scientists say. According to a paper published on September 14 in the journal ...

Natural camouflage is one of nature’s greatest gifts in the animal kingdom. Sure, some animals have deadly toxins or surgically sharp claws, but these are active forms of defense. Camouflage is the ...

Animals that resemble inanimate objects are better able to evade predators than those that use other kinds of camouflage. Predators took four times as long to find animals using this type of visual ...

Machine generated contents note: 1. Animal camouflage: an introduction / Martin Stevens and Sami Merilaita; 2. Crypsis through background matching / Sami Merilaita and Martin Stevens; 3. The ...

Did you know the animal kingdom is full of masters of disguise? There are millions of different animal species on our planet. Each one has its own special way of surviving. Some animals are fast ...