In many animals, skin coloration and its patterns play a crucial role in camouflage, communication, or thermoregulation. In the corn snake ... blotches outlined in black on an orange background ...

D: If the red and black stripes touch, then isn't it the non-venomous scarlet snake? Y: Beats me, but I think that snake's pattern qualifies as aposematic. D: What's that? Y: A pattern is ...

Like the atra tree snake, Rosen's tree snake is a lighter color in adolescence before developing its black pattern in adulthood. Also like the other species on nearby islands, the Rosen's tree ...

More than 20 years later, that snake ... pattern. Thousands of new species are found each year. Here are three of our most recent eye-catching stories. →‘Large’ creature with black eyes ...