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Duh, except for the sky… and the ocean… \nDon’t miss our next video! SUBSCRIBE! ►► http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub \n↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓\n\nAmong living things, the color blue is oddly rare. Blue rocks, blue sky, blue water, sure. But blue animals? They are few and far between. And the ones that do make blue? They make it in some very strange and special ways compared to other colors. In this video, we’ll look at some very cool butterflies to help us learn how living things make blue, and why this beautiful hue is so rare in nature.\n\nSPECIAL THANKS:\nSmithsonian Institution - National Museum of Natural History\nBob Robbins, Ph.D. - Curator of Lepidoptera\nJuan Pablo Hurtado Padilla - Microscope Educator\n\nRichard Prum, Ph.D. - Yale University\nVinothan Manoharan, Ph.D. - Harvard University\n\nSOURCES:\n\nBagnara, J. T., Fernandez, P. J., & Fujii, R. (2007). On the blue coloration of vertebrates. Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research, 20(1), 14-26.\n\nCuthill, I. C., Allen, W. L., Arbuckle, K., Caspers, B., Chaplin, G., Hauber, M. E., ... & Mappes, J. (2017). The biology of color. Science, 357(6350), eaan0221.\n\nKinoshita, S., Yoshioka, S., & Miyazaki, J. (2008). Physics of structural colors. Reports on Progress in Physics, 71(7), 076401.\n\nKinoshita, S. (2008). Structural colors in the realm of nature. World Scientific.\n\nPrum, R. O., Quinn, T., & Torres, R. H. (2006). Anatomically diverse butterfly scales all produce structural colours by coherent scattering. Journal of Experimental Biology, 209(4), 748-765.\n\nVukusic, P., & Sambles, J. R. (2003). Photonic structures in biology. Nature, 424(6950), 852-855.\n\nVukusic, P., Sambles, J. R., Lawrence, C. R., & Wootton, R. J. (1999). Quantified interference and diffraction in single Morpho butterfly scales. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 266(1427), 1403-1411.\n\n\n\n-----------\nFOLLOW US:\n\nMerch: https://store.dftba.com/collections/its-okay-to-be-smart \nFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/itsokaytobesmart\nTwitter:@DrJoeHanson @okaytobesmart \nTumblr: http://www.itsokaytobesmart.com \nInstagram: @DrJoeHanson\n\n-----------\n\nIt’s Okay To Be Smart is hosted by Joe Hanson, Ph.D.\nDirector: Joe Nicolosi\nWriter: Joe Hanson, Ph.D.\nProducer/editor/animator: Jordan Husmann \nProducer: Stephanie Noone and Amanda Fox\n\nProduced by PBS Digital Studios\nMusic via APM
