The colour of prehistoric animals is almost impossible to determine, because fossilisation does not preserve it. But under exceptional circumstances, colour patterns survive. In the Crato Formation in ...

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UC San Diego biologists have identified the genetic switch that added a ninth photoreceptor to butterfly eyes, revealing how ...

Researchers show that the ligand-independent nuclear receptor BmERR uses its AF-2 domain to recruit the coactivator PPRC1 and ...

Understanding the material basis of adaptive evolution has been a central goal in biology dating back to at least the time of Darwin. One focus of current debates is whether adaptive evolution relies ...

Many insects see the world through hundreds of tiny lenses that are grouped together in a visual organ known as the compound ...