After decades of studying color vision in mice, new research in zebrafish has allowed experts at the University of Tokyo to uncover how some animals regulate their ability to see blue light. The ...

A new study from the University of Arizona reveals that color vision in animals evolved around 500 million years ago, much earlier than the appearance of colorful fruits and flowers. The research, ...

The evolutionary history of colour and vision has been closely intertwined over the last 500 million years, leading to a dazzling diversity of colours and visual systems in marine invertebrates.

Color is more than a sensory pleasure; it is a tool refined by evolution. Our ability to perceive a broad spectrum of hues is a remarkable biological achievement shaped by survival pressures, social ...

Discover how flower color influence shapes pollinator adaptations in bees and what it reveals about their evolution of color vision. In 1793 the German botanist christian Konrad Sprengel first ...