SciShow: 3 of the World's Most Intensely Colored Living Things

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Content of the Lesson: Go to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try out Brilliant’s Daily Challenges. The first 200 subscribers get 20% off an annual Premium subscription. For most living things the color you see when you look at them is determined by pigments. But some of the most vivid colors we see in nature get their signature looks WiTHOUT colorful molecules. How do these intense colors get their power? Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Marble Berries: https://www.pnas.org/content/109/39/15712 https://www.npr.org/2012/09/11/160894364/how-to-get-birds-to-pick-blue-berries-they-can-t-eat https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/this-african-fruit-produces-the-worlds-most-intense-natural-color-30070457/ White Chypochilus Beetles: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/315/5810/348.abstract https://www.nature.com/articles/srep06075 https://www.osapublishing.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-48-17-3243 https://gizmodo.com/new-super-white-material-inspired-by-eerily-white-beetl-1823728796 Black Birds of Paradise: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02088-w https://cen.acs.org/articles/85/i4/Secret-White-Beetle-Revealed.html https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/super-black-is-the-new-black/549869/ General: https://www.britannica.com/science/coloration-biology#ref391256 https://manoharan.seas.harvard.edu/structural-color https://www.britannica.com/science/color Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seleucidis_melanoleucus_-_20030511.jpg https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs41467-017-02088-w/MediaObjects/41467_2017_2088_MOESM1_ESM.pdf https://peerj.com/articles/4621/ https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/77703.php?from=274694 https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/77704.php?from=274694 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pollia.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black-headed_weaver_(Ploceus_cucullatus_bohndorffi)_male_nest_building.jpg https://www.videoblocks.com/video/vertical-colorful-light-beams-and-streaks-seamless-motion-background-loop-full-hd-1920x1080-seven-colors-of-light-spectrum-and-rainbow-hktzspn5xj006idsr


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