July 8, 2011
Sometimes things aren’t just black and white. Take this Blue penguin for example. No, really, don’t you just want to take him?
“Recently the color of Little Blue Penguins was found to be generated by a new type of structural color.”
“Bird feathers have pigments like melanins and carotenoids – we even have evidence for color in the fossil penguin Inkayacu from fossilized melanin-bearing structures. Color can also be produced by physical interactions between light and biological nanostructures. These colors are called structural colors.”
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Structural Color in the Little Blue Penguin « March of the Fossil Penguins.
