This process, known as facultative melanism, has not been reported in ... Mothers of some types of python, such as Burmese python, are able to metabolically raise their body temperature, using ...

BELIEVING that light can be thrown on some of the problems of evolution by an experimental investigation of the development of melanism in lepidoptera, we have been studying the influence of the ...

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.

The dark-furred cat has a genetic condition called melanism that has been observed in about a third of cats, but not previously in this species. A Canada lynx. These cats typically have reddish ...

One such animal is the grasshopper, Tetrix subulata, that's featured in several studies investigating fire melanism. A 2011 study found that the frequency of melanistic grasshoppers was ...

(See our exclusive picture of a rare black wildcat seen in Africa.) The opposite of albinism, melanism is the result of a gene that causes a surplus of pigment in the skin or hair of an animal so ...

These findings raise the intriguing possibility that sleep-related developmental processes in the brain contribute to the link between melanism and other traits observed in adult barn owls and ...

This presents challenges of adaptation which certain animals cope with through a surprisingly rapid evolution called industrial melanism. The process is straightforward but ingenious. When dark ...