A rare rainforest insect, Arota festae, starts life bright pink before slowly turning green, revealing a surprising ...

One of the most commonly asked questions about long-extinct ancient animals is what they looked like and, more specifically, what color they once were. Now, researchers have been able to figure out ...

In A Nutshell A researcher on a small Panama Canal island spotted a hot pink katydid near a research station light late one ...

Beetles that can see the color red? That s exactly what scientists discovered in two Mediterranean species that defy the norm of insect vision. While most insects are blind to red, these beetles use ...

A closer look at seemingly drab, transparent insect wings has revealed realms of previously unappreciated color, visible to the naked eye yet overlooked for centuries. Until now, the wing colors of ...

A new, simple scanning system can create precise 3D models of insects in color. The system uses off-the-shelf equipment, including a camera and a computer, to obtain detailed, true-color 3D images of ...

Meet Sphaerocoris annulatus, the jewel bug that looks like it was painted by an artist. People even call this creature the "Picasso Bug" as a nickname. The Picasso Bug is commonly found in tropical ...