The peppered moth was the most diagrammatic example of the phenomenon of industrial melanism that came to be recognised in industrial and smoke-blackened parts of England in the mid-nineteenth century ...

More than 100 species of moths became darker to blend in with pollution during Britain’s industrial revolution, but did these different moth species all rely on the same gene to adapt? Two color ...

The rise of dark forms of many species of moth in heavily polluted areas of 19th and 20th century Britain, known as industrial melanism, was a highly visible response to environmental change. But did ...

The rise of dark forms of many species of moth in heavily polluted areas of 19th and 20th century Britain, known as industrial melanism, was a highly visible response to environmental change. But did ...

Black cats have long intrigued us, from comic book heroes to symbols of superstition. They’re also more common that you might think: At least 14 of the 35-plus species of wildcat—including jaguars, ...

Melanism is a rare condition that can make for some interesting-looking animals. It's caused by an over-development of melanin in the skin and can turn animals completely or partially black. Melanism ...

(Yes, a comprehensive study of the DNA of mantas and mobulas reclassified mantas in the genus Mobula in the Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society recently.) They are one of the ocean’s most ...

For Sergio Pitamitz, seeing a black cat was a stroke of luck. While leading a photography tour in Lualenyi Camp, a private game reserve near Kenya's Tsavo West National Park, on February 18, Pitamitz ...

When he was 18 years old, Neil Grayson, a painter and what was then described as an “obsessive prodigy” received special permission from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to spend six months duplicating ...