Nature’s most dazzling colors can be strangely rare. Walk through a park or forest and you see greens, yellows and reds that feel soft to the eye. Most of those tones are matte. Only now and then do ...

This image shows dhiney colours in different animal species. Casper van der Kooi and colleagues investigated how shiny colours are perceived by bumblebees. Nature is brimming with colour in almost ...