The title of this article is a bit misleading: no animals can actually see in complete darkness. Animals with so-called “night vision” take a small amount of light and maximize it through evolutionary ...

Colors are widely used in communication within and among animal species. For example, peacocks proudly display their vibrant tails, adorned with iridescent eyespots, to attract peahens for courtship.

Bold hues of red, orange, yellow, blue and purple help plants and animals communicate with their own species and others in their efforts to survive. Vivid orange dart frogs warn predators of their ...

An optical illusion is a fascinating visual trick that deceives the brain into seeing something different from reality. These illusions occur when the information our eyes send to the brain is ...

Scientists reconstructed 500 million years of evolutionary history to reveal which came first: colorful signals or the color vision needed to see them. The natural world is awash with color, and many ...

Scientists have devised a new video system that reveals how animals see color, and us. By Emily Anthes Is the sky truly blue? Forget cerulean — a bright, clear sky is actually dominated by ultraviolet ...

At a time when millions of Americans have turkey on their minds, a team of researchers led by an animal scientist at Penn State has successfully tested a new way for poultry producers to keep their ...

Vasas et al. (2024) unveil a new camera system and software package that allows both researchers and filmmakers to capture and display “animal-view” videos. This image of three male orange sulphurs ...

Animals don’t just see the world differently from one another, they experience time itself at dramatically different speeds. That is according to a new study that considered 237 species across the ...

If you think about it, you can’t be sure that what you see for the color red, for example, is what anyone else in the world actually sees. All you can be sure of is that we’ve all been trained to ...