Peacocks, panther chameleons, scarlet macaws, clown fish, toucans, blue-ringed octopuses, and so many more: The animal kingdom has countless denizens with extraordinarily colorful beauty. But in many ...

Q. I live near Charleston, South Carolina, and recently spotted a blue anole sunning itself. I am familiar with our common green and brown anoles, but this one made me look twice. His tail had been ...

Blue is one of the rarest colors in the animal kingdom, and unlike other pigments found in nature, most blue creatures don’t actually produce blue pigment. Instead, their color comes from structural ...

Between the sky and sea, nature appears to favor blue, as do we humans. Yet the color is rare in nature—especially not in “a blue-violet hue resembling the color of electrical sparks,” which is how a ...

Bold hues of red, orange, yellow, blue and purple help plants and animals communicate with their own species and others in their efforts to survive. Vivid orange dart frogs warn predators of their ...

On Christmas Eve, a team of reindeer will crisscross the sky towing Santa and his present-laden sleigh. But Rudolph’s team won’t be the only reindeer doing something special. Back in the highest ...