coloration

“It’s a very charismatic flower. Its form and coloration are quite striking,” Musial says.

The word "neela" signifies the color blue in most Indian languages -- a fitting tribute to the ant's unique coloration.

For even coloration, Slocum said, “you want to work with the grain.”

So, a rare body coloration becomes more common in the next generation, at which point the birds switch their target and eat up that morph.

Scuba divers off the southernmost coast of Japan’s main island first noticed shimmering coloration in Sporochnus dotyi a couple of years ago.