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Why Aren't Mammals More Colorful?

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Birds, bugs, fish and more come in every color of the rainbow, meanwhile mammals seem to offer more generic pallets, and dinosaurs might be to blame.

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Sources:

http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/chlorophyll/chlorophyll_h.htm
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https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/11/12/347736896/how-animals-hacked-the-rainbow-and-got-stumped-on-blue
http://www.webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/7I.html
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Indian_pigments.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beautiful_Zebra_in_South_Africa.JPG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eomaia_NT.jpg#/media/File:Eomaia_NT.jpg

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