Animals have all sorts of methods to keep them safe and help them survive. There are animals that are so well camouflaged you'd never see them right in front of you, which helps them hide from ...

Shine an ultraviolet flashlight on flying squirrels, and they glow bright pink. Catch a scorpion on a full moon, and you’ll notice that it’s a haunting blue. Rays and sharks can turn neon green, while ...

Light is a primary driver of visual evolution in shrimp, according to new FIU research published this week in Nature Communications Biology. The deep sea is a dark place, with the only light coming ...

If Santa and his sleigh travelled at 10 per cent the speed of light, Rudolph’s nose would be blueshifted to look orange as he ...

Living organisms quietly emit light. This glow is real, measurable, and tied to life itself. Researchers at the University of Calgary and the National Research Council of Canada have now shown that ...

Scientists discover that deer markings may glow at dawn and dusk, adding light to scent based communication during mating ...

WASHINGTON — Many animals can glow in the dark. Fireflies famously blink on summer evenings. But most animals that light up are found in the depths of the ocean. In a new study, scientists report that ...

You can read about the Amazon forest for years and still not come close to grasping how strange its wildlife really is. The rainforest holds animals that glow, mimic wood, run on water, or carry ...