The world is full of animals and plants displaying ... Fairrie’s paphiopedilum is one of the rarest. Soon after being discovered in Bhutan, this orchid’s vibrant purple-and-white petals ...

However, one of the rarest feline coat colors is the lilac coloration — a subtle, lavender-tinged hue that's as fascinating as it is beautiful. Lilac-colored felines are not entirely purple ...

Joe Thompson, a fossil tour guide from Wight Coast Fossils, found a rare purple dinosaur footprint on the Isle of Wight. Thompson stumbled upon the extraordinary track imprinted in clay on ...

An exotic colour at the far end of our visible spectrum and often associated with royalty, purple is relatively rare in nature. But some vibrant plants, animals and fungi do show off a regal purple, ...