Somewhere over the rainbow 48 million years ago, a happy little blue bird flew—until it soared over a lake belching toxic gases and died. The lake’s sediments then entombed the bird’s body, ...

A pigment that makes feathers and hair orange helps prevent cellular damage by removing excess cysteine from cells.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Quick Take Vulturine guinea fowl’s blue and white plumage comes from feather structure, not pigments, creating vivid, ...

PALAKKAD: The new year is set to mark a life-changing beginning for a group of tribal women from Palakkad district, who are preparing to launch ‘Triband’, an exclusive premium fabric brand dyed ...

What is heavier: 1 kilogram of feathers or 1 kilogram of steel? Whilst the answer to this classic riddle is that they both weigh the same amount, it may be surprising to discover that the color of a ...

The genetic underpinnings of pigmentation and colour patterning in fish encompass a complex interplay of gene regulation, cell fate determination and evolutionary innovation. Neural crest cells, which ...

Over the past two decades, at least four major research programmes have formed in evo–devo, although there is extensive overlap among them. Figure 1: A morphodynamic model relating shape change and ...