At the 2015 New York International Auto Show, Volkswagen took the wraps off a quartet of special-edition Beetles. Each concept has its own unique style and color, and each nods to the Beetle’s past, ...

Color-changing animals, such as chameleons and squid, typically alter their hues when nerve signals or hormones spur pigment cells in their skin to expand or shrink. The Panamanian golden tortoise ...

I was at Heil Ranch, working on a study of mountain pine beetles with my graduate student Scott Ferrenberg, when a brilliantly colored beetle landed on our equipment. I picked it up and confined it ...

Many bright, iridescent beetles and butterflies get their brilliant colors not from pigments, but from the way tiny structures on their bodies reflect light. These structures have long been of ...

NEW YORK -- Volkswagen continues to milk its redesigned Golf small car with variations and concept cars as a way to plug holes in its new-model launch schedule. Concept cars and special edition ...

Inspired by beetle cuticles, scientists have developed optical structures that can produce vibrant, iridescent and completely biodegradable colors using chitin—the world's second most abundant organic ...

Nature doesn’t hold back when it comes to insects. While most people imagine bugs as brown, creepy, or bland, there’s a whole world of creatures that look like they were painted by a surrealist. Here ...

On Saturday, you might catch a glimpse of Chris Vallone driving his “pride and joy,” a 1970 VW Beetle convertible that the Congers enthusiast fully restored in 2018 after it had been found rusting ...

The leaf beetle, Plateumaris sp., is one of just two such advanced age insect fossils that retain substantial original color molecules. Another beetle, dating to 50 million years ago, also appears to ...