image: A front view shot of a critically endangered gooty sapphire ornamental tarantula (P. metallica) and its reflection. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 27, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by B.-K. Hsiung at The University of Akron in Akron, OH, and colleagues was titled, 'Blue reflectance in tarantulas is evolutionarily conserved despite nanostructural diversity.' view more
Credit: [Credit: Michael Kern, www.thegardensofeden.org]