From the birds-of-paradise with their specialized feather structures that create a deep, matte black to the ... uses contrasting colors to signal danger. Velvet ants, equipped with powerful ...

Photograph By Piemags/nature / Alamy A recent study found that the ant’s black color is more complex than it appears. When light hits the exoskeleton, it gets scattered by the wasps’ hairs ...

With its furry exterior and distinct black ... these colors “are formed in nature by a sophisticated arrangement of microstructures” alongside dark pigments. In the female velvet ant, these ...