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 ...

Camouflage is an exciting animal adaptation that allows many different types of animals to blend in with their surroundings. The chameleon is one of the most recognizable animals that camouflages ...

"First, we have to understand where colours in animals come from," says Kjetil L. Voje. He is an evolutionary biologist and ...

Animal survival strategies, how animals escape predators, camouflage in animals, playing dead in the wild, animal defense mechanisms are topics that reveal how closely survival in nature mirrors ...

Octopuses conceal themselves in their surroundings using chromatophores—cells that can change pigment dynamically—to match the colors of the seafloor, reef systems, and even other animals. But they ...

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 ...

Abbott H. Thayer’s painting of a peacock camouflaged in the foliage in “Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom” (1909) (image via Biodiversity Heritage Library) “Concealing-coloration in the ...

Before coming across an unusually calligraphic painting of a mountain, Williams College Museum of Art Curator Kevin Murphy considered the turn-of-the-century artist Abbott Handerson Thayer “a one ...

Thank the deity of your choice for the genus Phasmatodea. That’s the entire group we collectively call stick insects, invertebrates that mimic the limbs and leaves of trees. For the most part, they’re ...