Birds receive their colors thanks to the pigments in their genetic makeup. All living creatures owe their coloring to pigmentation within their DNA. Even humanity owes our hair and skin color to this ...

Birds' feathers, or plumage, are some of the most strikingly variable animal characteristics that can be observed by the naked eye. The patterns that we see in birds' feathers are made up of intricate ...

Animals are living color. Wasps buzz with painted warnings. Birds shimmer their iridescent desires. Fish hide from predators with body colors that dapple like light across a rippling pond. And all ...

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee have found that the evolution of the color of the plumage of birds depends less on the gender and more on predation and success of foraging.