Why Is Blue So Rare In Nature?
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[PBS Bumper][OPEN]There are no blue tigers.No blue bats, no blue squirrels, or blue dogs.Even blue whales aren’t that blue.Animals come in pretty much every color, but blue seems to be the rarest.What’s cool, though, is when we do find a blue animal, they’re awesome looking.Nature doesn’t do halfway with blue.To understand why this is, we’re gonna journey through evolution, chemistry, and some verycool physics.But, first we’re gonna need to understand why animals are any color at all, and to dothat, we need to go look at some butterflies… because butterflies are awesome… and ifyou don’t think so, you’re wrongThis is Bob Robbins.He’s curator of Lepidoptera at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C.Butterflies ARE awesome.Make no mistak...
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[PBS Bumper][OPEN]There are no blue tigers.No blue bats, no blue squirrels, or blue dogs.Even blue whales aren’t that blue.Animals come in pretty much every color, but blue seems to be the rarest.What’s cool, though, is when we do find a blue animal, they’re awesome looking.Nature doesn’t do halfway with blue.To understand why this is, we’re gonna journey through evolution, chemistry, and some verycool physics.But, first we’re gonna need to understand why animals are any color at all, and to dothat, we need to go look at some butterflies… because butterflies are awesome… and ifyou don’t think so, you’re wrongThis is Bob Robbins.He’s curator of Lepidoptera at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C.Butterflies ARE awesome.Make no mistak...
