Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Why are raspberries red and bananas yellow? A scientific debate has raged for decades about whether plants evolve to produce ...

Tropical Asian birds have a penchant for red and black -- a proclivity that likely prompted jungle plants to sprout fruit in these colours, scientists said on Thursday. It has long been suspected that ...

Fruits can get their colors from a lot of places. New research suggests that the color preferences of the animals that eat fruit are among the strongest influences on fruit color. It’s an assumption ...

Scientists have identified a fruit that looks truly blue. It grows on a tree called the blue quandong. The blue quandong fruit is found in remote rainforest regions of Australia. Unlike other fruits, ...