"The coloration of living things has evolved slowly: colorful fruitlike seeds started dotting an otherwise bland landscape around 300 million years ago, vibrant flowering plants appeared 100 million years later, and animals—namely cockroaches and butterflies—started sporting bolder pigmentation 70 million years after that."
"A recent study in Biological Reviews found that color vision dawned about 500 million years ago against a drab backdrop of browns and grays and muted shades of some other colors."
"There was this long lag time between the explosion of color and the origins of color vision," says John J. Wiens, a co-author of the study and a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona.
"Bold hues of red, orange, yellow, blue and purple help plants and animals communicate with their own species and others in their efforts to survive."
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