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 ...

Scientists filmed a squid covering itself in mud and holding its tentacles upright, using camouflage that helps it hide on the ocean floor.

Discover the fascinating world of camouflage and masterful mimicry in this gallery of hidden animals. From elusive snow leopards to tiny mantises, these animals of all shapes and sizes can blend ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In this series of posts, I have challenged science students to explain complex topics in as simple a manner as possible (but not simpler). In this post, 18-year old biochemistry student Henry Laney ...

This moldy pancake is actually the flowery flounder (Bothus mancus), a vivid plane of a fish that expertly changes its color to match its surroundings. The very flat fish’s dorsal (top) side is ...

The unusual fusing of biological science with computer science cam together to allow researchers to try and understand why many animals are dichromats (having two types of color receptor cells in ...

Many animals are countershaded, meaning that their dorsal sides are darker than their ventral sides. The color pattern occurs in animals terrestrial and aquatic alike and is one of the most common ...