Here's a philosophical question for you. If a color doesn't have a name, can we still see it? Many years ago, the human eye ...

Near a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sat a temporary pond, doomed to dry up eventually. Inside swam a ...

He has complete heterochromia, meaning that both of his eyes are completely different colors. Some cats have “partial” ...

A dermatologist has claimed fixing under-eye circles will differ depending on what type you have - and there's three main variations that need certain treatments ...

Scientists have made a breakthrough in their understanding of the genetics behind human eye colour. They found that just a few "letters" out of the six billion that make up the genetic code are ...

Discover how the genetics behind your eye color connects to various health conditions, from melanoma risk to pain tolerance—what your eye shade reveals.

Researchers behind a recent study claim to have discovered a new color that the natural, naked eye cannot perceive — 'olo,' a hyper-saturated blue-green that occurs when a single kind of cone ...

For a recessive trait like blue eyes to appear, both alleles must be the same (homozygous). In general, darker eye colors are more dominant. Brown eyes are dominant, while blue eyes are recessive.

Researchers at Copenhagen University found that blue eyes are "a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye color of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet ...

Astonishingly, over 99.5 per cent of blue-eyed participants in the study have the same tiny mutation, indicating it most likely originated from a single individual.

Note also that blue eyes are not well-received by most AKC breed standards. They are allowed in any of the merle-colored breeds and some of the spotted breeds, but with rare exceptions, they are ...