Colour and Vision

Join a group of scientists and artists as they reflect on colour and vision in nature and beyond, how our individual experiences differ, and the impact of technology.

Discover how comparing dragonfly and human vision can give us a new appreciation for both.

Find out how scientists and a palaeoartist created a life-size model of Psittacosaurus featuring real colour patterns, and what this revealed about the dinosaur's life.

How do you feel when you see the colour red? Angry, amorous, energized? Why might that be?

Take a look through the eyes of a dog, a spider and three other creatures.

Museum scientists are investigating Earth's earliest eyes with exceptional fossils.

Take a look at these photos and see whether millions of years of evolution will outwit you.

Meet the creatures with the most crafty, strange and sophisticated eyes in the animal kingdom.

Meet some of the brightest and boldest creatures in the animal kingdom, where colour is a matter of life and death.

From ocean to sky, blue is seemingly everywhere - but it's one of the most difficult colours for nature to produce using pigments.

The colour of sunlight, gold and daffodils, yellow is often associated with warmth and optimism.  

An exotic colour at the far end of our visible spectrum and often associated with royalty, purple is relatively rare in nature.

Dr Erica McAlister, one of the world's ultimate fly fans, introduces some of the strangest-looking flies around, and their equally bizarre behaviour.

Dr Bruno Simões tells us how he pursued sea snakes from the mangroves to the open ocean to learn about their vision.