
Color
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The Truth About Young Zebra Finches
Young zebra finches do not have pink beaks. They have black beaks at about one month in and they'll reach their adult color when they're around 65 days old. So so far, both of you have not found the lie. Next up, we're going to take a short break. Then it'll be time for the fact.
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Color: it's not just for art anymore. From red dwarfs to green algae to... uh... brown squirrels, science is chock full of color, too!
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Sources:
[Trivia Question]
Longest-lasting rainbow
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/9-hour-rainbow-sets-new-guinness-record-180968527/
[Fact Off]
Crustacean larvae camouflaged glass eyes
https://slate.com/technology/2023/02/shrimp-larvae-eye-glitter-nanotechnology.html
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/glassy-eyes-young-crustaceans-predators
Brainbows (fluorescent cell visualization using lots of colors)
https://blog.addgene.org/evolution-of-brainbow-using-cre-lox-for-multicolor-labeling-of-neurons
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-1352-5_6
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/698637
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/619298
[Ask the Science Couch]
Color psychology and emotional responses
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00368/full
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4880552/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1612362/pdf/brmedj02002-0030.pdf
https://www.nature.com/articles/435293a
[Butt One More Thing]
Caca-dauphin, the fashionable baby poop color