Fossils tend to offer a black-and-white view of the past, but new research on prehistoric beetles brings the insects' flashy metallic colors back to vivid life. The findings, published in the journal ...

Jewel beetles are striking insects, easily recognized by their vivid colors and metallic sheen. New research investigated the complex evolutionary history of jewel beetles' vision. Jewel beetles are ...

Here’s a reason to keep eyes on the skies while dealing with dung on the ground: Variations in the color of light in different parts of the sky can act as a compass, at least if you’re a dung beetle.

Kelli Carroll, a zookeeper at the Lake Superior Zoo, introduces The Lift to the zoo’s blue-death feigning beetles.

Artist and naturalist Abbott Handerson Thayer became known as the “father of camouflage” with the publication in 1909 of a book on coloration in animals. He was particularly fascinated by the ...

Remarkably preserved beetles dug up from fossil pits in Europe and the United States have given scientists the most accurate picture to date of the colors that adorned their exoskeletons 15 to ...

Some insects are cryptic, blending in with their backgrounds to hide from predators, while others are brightly colored, noisy or form dense and conspicuous aggregations to warn their predators away.

Yale-NUS College Postdoctoral Fellow Eunice Tan has discovered that the bright colour patterns of beetles are not a warning signal to predators as previously believed, but actually a form of ...

Inspired by the varying colors that gleam off of beetle shells, scientists have developed color-shifting nanoparticles that can change hue even after being embedded into a material. A report has been ...

Jewel beetles are striking insects, easily recognized by their vivid colors and metallic sheen. Possessing large, well-developed eyes, jewel beetles use vision and color for a range of different ...