Chronicle

This Fish Doesn’t Just See With Its Eyes -- It Also Sees With Its Skin.

DURHAM, N.C. -- A few years ago while on a fishing trip in the Florida Keys, biologist Lori Schweikert came face to face with an unusual quick-change act. She reeled in a pointy-snouted reef fish ...
Yahoo

How animals get their skin patterns is a matter of physics – new research clarifying how could improve medical diagnostics and synthetic materials

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Color patterns seen in fish and other animals evolved to serve various purposes. Lagunatic Photo/iStock via Getty Images Plus A ...
Nature

Pelagic fish camouflage in shallow waters from the humboldt current system through intracellular structures and reflectance mechanisms

Pelagic fish have evolved specialized biogenic multilayer reflectors composed of stacks of intracellular anhydrous guanine crystals separated by cytoplasm, giving notorious silvery appearance to their ...
Popular Science

How animals get their skin patterns is a matter of physics

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Phys.org

Color patterns drive fish community structure in coral reefs, study finds

Visual signals, such as color patterns are an important communication medium for anemonefish. Researchers from Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology have recently elucidated how the patterns on ...