But exactly how these complex optical structures are assembled in a way that make them so bright and colorful remained ... making the butterfly wings appear brighter." These crystal dislocations ...

Structural color is common in bird feathers and butterfly wings today, but finding such features in the fossil record can be tricky. Scientists know very little about what the scales of ancient ...

The authors of the new study rearranged colors on butterfly wings by deleting a single gene using a genome editing tool called CRISPR. The gene's absence had a dramatic effect in seven butterfly ...

In new research, scientists have discovered a genetic mechanism that is responsible for the colourful patterns on the wings of butterflies. Their findings were published in the Proceedings of the ...

The butterfly Pierella luna appears to change color because of the microstructure of its wings, which feature slightly curved scales. The butterfly Pierella luna appears to change color because of ...