Animals with symmetrical markings tend to be more noticeable to predators Markings closer to the midline are more easily detectable To improve camouflage, animals evolved their markings to be less ...

Five new animal species that camouflage themselves as excrement or bark reveal some of what still remains hidden in the world ...

Marine biologists have discovered three broad classes of camouflage body patterns. This study of cephalopod camouflage has implications for analyzing camouflage tactics throughout the animal kingdom.

Some forms of camouflage have evolved in animals to exploit a loophole in the way predators perceive their symmetrical markings. New research describes how animals have evolved to mitigate this ...

Scientists led by Dr Jakob Vinther from the University of Bristol have used a well-preserved Cretaceous-period dinosaur fossil that was found in China to create a reconstruction of what the beast, ...

Camouflage allows soldiers to blend into their surroundings, but the Operational Camouflage Pattern (OCP) adopted by the US Army falls well short of the stealth capabilities of the squid and other ...

Here's a tongue-twister for you: Crafty cuttlefish can complete contours to carefully choose camouflage. What this means, without all the alliteration, is that the visual systems of these squidlike ...

Cephalopods have several tricks for blending in with their undersea surroundings: they can change color, pattern and even the shape of their skin. Roger Hanlon, a biologist at the Marine Biological ...

DEAR JOAN: My husband and I hope you can provide an answer or insight on the behavior of our dachshund. Rudy is 10 years old and generally very mellow and sweet. However, we note a strange behavior ...

Why do animals use camouflage? Have you ever worn a disguise? Have you pretended to be someone else or something? Animals do this too. We call this camouflage. A camouflage animal uses different ways ...