Pollution darkened these environments, leading to a rise in dark-colored moths that were less visible to predators. This phenomenon, known as ‘industrial melanism’, showcases the moth’s adaptive ...

A few researchers battle that the various changes happening in deer mice might act as a more helpful illustration of everyday choice in real life than the nineteenth-century variety change seen in ...

A melanistic Royal Bengal Tiger was killed by poachers in Similipal Tiger Reserve, the world's only habitat for these rare tigers. Authorities arrested four men and seized the hide, nails ...

A sizeable number of tigers in Similipal exhibited pseudo-melanism, characterised by black stripes that were much more pronounced than the typical coloration of a Royal Bengal Tiger. It was ...

BHUBANESWAR: Even as the Forest department grapples with the poaching of the melanistic tiger, investigation has revealed the sub-adult big cat, skin of which was recovered from a fringe village ...

BHUBANESWAR/BARIPADA: Skin and other body parts of a rare melanistic tiger, unique to the Similipal landscape, were seized by forest officials from the possession of four persons in the fringe ...

“Melanism is something that occurs very rarely within birds and mammals,” said Adams in a statement sent to IFLScience. “I’ve heard about it before in other species of penguins so I’ve ...

Similipal Tiger Reserve in Odisha is home to the world's only population of melanistic tigers, a rare genetic variant of the Royal Bengal Tiger. Melanistic tigers, with their distinct coat pattern ...

There isn’t a big difference between a butterfly and a moth, but we all know which one out of the two gets more love in the world. Butterflies are bright, colourful and pretty – you can get ...

People, he found, tend to interact with albino animals more frequently, because albinism, or the absence of pigmentation, occurs more often than melanism, or the overproduction of pigment.

Image credits: dbenc Audio isn’t the first cat to go viral for having four ears. Midas made headlines in 2021 when he was adopted by a woman in Turkey. The Russian Blue mix also sports quadruple ...