Recent tiger sightings are creating excitement. A massive tiger, ‘Hercules’, is spotted in Uttarakhand. Forest officials are ...

I’ve always been a sucker for random facts that make me sound smarter than I actually am. You know the type. Those little ...

MELANISM has long been a subject of special interest to British entomologists owing to the rise and spread of melanic varieties in many British species of moths and butterflies, such groups as the ...

That condition is called melanism. “Leucism occurs due to reduction or partial loss of all pigments, not just melanin, and therefore the animal could be pale in colour.” Both conditions occur ...

The fox’s coloring is probably the result of a condition called melanism. Stacy O’Nell caught photos of this extremely rare black fox in Yellowstone National Park, when it made a brief appearance ...

With this in mind, black animals should not be confused with melanistic animals who suffer from melanism. Melanism is a mutated condition that causes excessive development of eumelanin in the skin and ...

Melanism is the opposite of albinism, and these squirrels were born with a variation of a specific gene resulting in their near, or completely, black fur. Their population dominance in Bellingham is ...

This is because their black coloration is something known as melanism. Melanism affects the production of the pigment melanin and is caused by a dominant mutation in the MC1R gene and a recessive ...